Deuteronomy 1:12-17

Bible Text

[12] How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? [13] Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. [14] You answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do. [15] So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. [16] I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. [17] You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

Mount Horeb (Sinai) is where Israel received the covenant and where Moses appointed judges because the growing nation could not be governed by one man alone. The surrounding route—from Egypt through the wilderness toward Canaan—frames this judicial ordering as preparation for Israel’s faithful life in the promised

Places in this passage

Deuteronomy 1:12-17 mentions Arabah, Ashtaroth, Bashan, Canaan, Edrei, Egypt, Euphrates, Jordan, Kadesh-barnea, Lebanon, Moab, Mount Horeb, Mount Seir, Negeb, Paran, Shephelah, Valley of Eshcol and Way of the Red Sea.

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