Keluaran 18:21

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Di samping itu kaucarilah dari seluruh bangsa itu orang-orang yang cakap dan takut akan Allah, orang-orang yang dapat dipercaya, dan yang benci kepada pengejaran suap; tempatkanlah mereka di antara bangsa itu menjadi pemimpin seribu orang, pemimpin seratus orang, pemimpin lima puluh orang dan pemimpin sepuluh orang.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Di samping itu kaucarilah dari seluruh bangsa itu orang-orang yang cakap dan takut akan Allah, orang-orang yang dapat dipercaya, dan yang benci kepada pengejaran suap; tempatkanlah mereka di antara bangsa itu menjadi pemimpin seribu orang, pemimpin seratus orang, pemimpin lima puluh orang dan pemimpin sepuluh orang.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi hendaklah engkau mencahari di antara mereka ini sekalian beberapa orang yang bijaksana dan yang takut akan Allah, yaitu orang setiawan yang benci akan laba yang keji, dan angkatlah akan orang itu jadi penghulu, setengah atas seribu orang, setengah atas seratus orang, setengah atas lima puluh orang dan setengah atas sepuluh orang.

Contextual Overview

¹³ And on the morowe Moyses sate to iudge the people: and the people stoode about Moyses from morning vnto eue. ¹⁴ And when Moyses father in lawe sawe all that he dyd vnto the people, he sayd: what is this that thou doest vnto the people? Why sittest thou thy selfe alone, and all the people stande about thee from morning vnto euen? ¹⁵ And Moyses sayde to his father in lawe: because the people come vnto me to seeke counsayle of God. ¹⁶ When they haue a matter, they come vnto me, and I iudge betweene euery man & his neyghbour, & shew them the ordinaunces of God and his lawes. ¹⁷ And Moyses father in lawe sayde vnto hym: It is not well that thou doest. ¹⁸ Thou both weryest thy selfe, and this people that is with thee: For this thing is of more wayght, then thou art able to perfourme thy selfe alone. ¹⁹ Heare therfore nowe my voyce, and I wyll geue thee councell, and God shalbe with thee: Be thou vnto the people to Godwarde, that thou mayest bring the causes vnto God: ²⁰ And thou shalt teache them ordinaunces and lawes, and shew them the way wherein they must walke, & the worke that they must do. ²¹ Moreouer, thou shalt seeke out among all the people, men of actiuitie [and] such as feare God, true men hating couetousnes, and place [of these] ouer the [people] rulers of thousandes, rulers of hundrethes, rulers of fiftithes, and rulers of tennes, ²² And let them iudge the people at all seasons: and euery great matter that commeth, let them bryng vnto thee, but let them iudge all small causes them selues, and so shall it be easier for thy selfe, and they shall beare a [burthen] with thee.

Bible Verse Review
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Moreover: Deuteronomy 1:13-17, Acts 6:3

able men: Exodus 18:25, Deuteronomy 16:18, 1 Kings 3:9-12, Proverbs 28:2

such as: Exodus 23:2-9, Genesis 22:12, Genesis 42:18, 2 Samuel 23:3, 1 Kings 18:3, 1 Kings 18:12, 2 Chronicles 19:5-10, Nehemiah 5:9, Nehemiah 7:2, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Luke 18:2, Luke 18:4

men: Job 29:16, Job 31:13, Isaiah 16:5, Isaiah 59:4, Isaiah 59:14, Isaiah 59:15, Jeremiah 5:1, Ezekiel 18:8, Zechariah 7:9, Zechariah 8:16

hating: Exodus 23:8, Deuteronomy 16:18, Deuteronomy 16:19, 1 Samuel 8:3, 1 Samuel 12:3, 1 Samuel 12:4, Psalms 26:9, Psalms 26:10, Isaiah 33:15, Ezekiel 22:12, Acts 20:33, 1 Timothy 3:3, 1 Timothy 6:9-11, 2 Peter 2:14, 2 Peter 2:15

rulers of thousands: Whatever matter the decarch, or ruler over ten, could not decide, went to the pentecontarch, or ruler of fifty, and thence by degrees to the hecatontarch, or ruler over a hundred, to the chiliarch, or ruler over a thousand, to Moses, and at length to God himself. Each magistrate had the care or inspection of only ten men; the decarch superintended ten private characters; the hecatontarch ten decarchs; and the chiliarch, ten hecatontarchs. Numbers 10:4, Deuteronomy 1:15, Joshua 22:14, 1 Samuel 8:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:6 - rulers Exodus 21:6 - the judges Exodus 22:9 - the cause of both parties Leviticus 4:22 - a ruler hath sinned Leviticus 19:15 - General Numbers 1:16 - heads Numbers 25:5 - judges Joshua 22:21 - heads Judges 6:15 - my family is poor Ruth 4:2 - the elders 1 Kings 4:2 - the princes 1 Chronicles 12:20 - captains 2 Chronicles 19:7 - let the Ezra 7:25 - set magistrates Psalms 82:1 - God Psalms 119:36 - and not to Proverbs 15:27 - but Proverbs 28:16 - he that Isaiah 3:3 - captain Jeremiah 22:17 - covetousness Daniel 6:1 - an Micah 5:2 - thousands Malachi 3:5 - fear Ephesians 5:3 - covetousness

Cross-References

Genesis 11:5
But the Lorde came downe to see the citie and towre whiche the chyldren of men buylded.

Genesis 11:7
Come on, let vs go downe, and there confounde their language, that euerye one perceaue not his neighbours speache.

Genesis 18:1
And the Lorde appeared vnto hym in the playne of Mamre, and he sate in his tent doore in the heate of the day.

Genesis 18:24
If there be fiftie ryghteous within the citie, wylt thou destroye and not spare the place for the sake of fiftie ryghteous that are therein?

Exodus 3:8
And am come downe to deliuer the out of the hande of the Egyptians, and to bryng them out of that lande, vnto a good lande & a large, vnto a lande that floweth with mylke and hony, euen vnto the place of the Chanaanites, and Hethites, and Amorites, and Pherizites, and Heuites, and of the Iebusites.

Exodus 33:5
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses: Say vnto the chyldren of Israel, ye are a styfnecked people: I must come once sodaynly vpon you, and make an ende of you: therefore nowe put thy goodly rayment from thee, that I may wyt what to do vnto thee.

Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lorde thy God led thee this fourtie yeres in the wildernesse, for to humble thee, & to proue thee, and to knowe what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest kepe his comaundementes, or no.

Deuteronomy 13:3
Hearken not thou vnto the wordes of that prophete or dreamer of dreames: For the Lorde thy God proueth you, to knowe whether ye loue the Lorde your God with all your heart and with all your soule.

Joshua 22:22
The Lorde God of gods, the Lorde God of gods knoweth, and also Israel shall knowe, yf it be to rebell or to transgresse against the Lorde, then thou Lorde saue vs not this day.

Job 34:22
There is no darkenesse nor shadowe of death that can hide the wicked doers from him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, thou shalt provide out of all the people,.... Or look out t from among them; see Acts 6:3,

able men; or "men of power" u; meaning not so much men of strong and robust constitutions, who, as Aben Ezra says, are able to bear labour; but men that have strength of heart, as Ben Gersom expresses it, men of spirit and courage, and are not afraid to do justice, to repress vice, and countenance virtue; or, as Maimonides says w, have a strong heart, or courage and boldness to deliver the oppressed from the hands of the oppressor. Jarchi interprets it of rich men, of men of substance, who have no need to flatter, or play the hypocrite, and to know the faces of men:

such as fear God; who have the fear of God before their eyes, and on their hearts, in all they do, and therefore cannot do those things that others do, who are destitute of it; cannot give a cause the wrong way wilfully, or pervert judgment, and are the reverse of the character of the unjust judge, that neither feared God nor regarded man, Luke 18:2:

men of truth; true men, sincere, upright, and faithful men, that love truth and hate lies and falsehood, and will take some pains to get at the truth of a cause, to inquire where it lies, and pursue and encourage it where it is found, and discourage to the uttermost falsehood, lies, and perjury: hating covetousness; in themselves and others, filthy lucre, dishonest gain, mammon of unrighteousness, and so not to be bribed and corrupted, and execute wrong judgment for the sake of money:

and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens; meaning not courts of judicature, consisting of such a number of judges, for such a court was never known to have a thousand judges upon the bench at once; the highest court of judicature that ever was among the Jews, which was long after this time, consisted but of seventy or seventy one: but the sense is, that each of these should have such a number of persons, or rather families, under their care, who, when they applied unto them for justice, should faithfully administer it to them;

Luke 18:2- :.

t תחזה "videbis", Montanus; "tu prospice", Tigurine version; "tu videto", Drusius. u אנשי חיל "viros virtutis", Montanus, Vatablus; "viros fortitudinis", Cartwright.

w Hilchot Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Able men - The qualifications are remarkably complete, ability, piety, truthfulness, and unselfishness. From Deuteronomy 1:13, it appears that Moses left the selection of the persons to the people, an example followed by the Apostles; see Acts 6:3.

Rulers of thousands ... - The numbers appear to be conventional, corresponding nearly, but not exactly, to the military, or civil divisions of the people: the largest division (1,000) is used as an equivalent of a gens under one head, Numbers 1:16; Numbers 10:4; Joshua 22:14.

The word “rulers,” sometimes rendered “princes,” is general, including all ranks of officials placed in command. The same word is used regularly on Egyptian monuments of the time of Moses.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 18:21. Able men — Persons of wisdom, discernment, judgment, prudence, and fortitude; for who can be a ruler without these qualifications?

Such as fear God — Who are truly religious, without which they will feel little concerned either for the bodies or souls of the people.

Men of truth — Honest and true in their own hearts and lives; speaking the truth, and judging according to the truth.

Hating covetousness — Doing all for God's sake, and love to man; labouring to promote the general good; never perverting judgment, or suppressing the testimonies of God, for the love of money or through a base, man-pleasing spirit, but expecting their reward from the mercy of God in the resurrection of the just.

Rulers of thousands, c. — Millenaries, centurions, quinquagenaries, and decurions each of these, in all probability, dependent on that officer immediately above himself. So the decurion, or ruler over ten, if he found a matter too hard for him, brought it to the quinquagenary, or ruler of fifty; if, in the course of the exercise of his functions, he found a cause too complicated for him to decide on, he brought it to the centurion, or ruler over a hundred. In like manner the centurion brought his difficult case to the millenary, or ruler over a thousand; the case that was too hard for him to judge, he brought to Moses; and the case that was too hard for Moses, he brought immediately to GOD. It is likely that each of these classes had a court composed of its own members, in which causes were heard and tried. Some of the rabbins have supposed that there were 600 rulers of thousands, 6000 rulers of hundreds, 12,000 rulers of fifties and 60,000 rulers of tens; making in the whole 78,600 officers. But Josephus says (Antiq., lib. iii., chap. 4) that Moses, by the advice of Jethro, appointed rulers over myriads, and then over thousands; these he divided into five hundreds, and again into hundreds, and into fifties; and appointed rulers over each of these, who divided them into thirties, and at last into twenties and tens; that each of these companies had a chief, who took his name from the number of persons who were under his direction and government. Allowing what Josephus states to be correct, some have supposed that there could not have been less than 129,860 officers in the Israelitish camp. But such computations are either fanciful or absurd. That the people were divided into thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens, we know, for the text states it, but we cannot tell precisely how many of such divisions there were, nor, consequently, the number of officers.