Exodus 18:21-22
choose <02372> [Moreover.]
capable <02428 0582> [able men.]
God-fearing <03373> [such as.]
<0582> [men.]
hate <08130> [hating.]
rulers ... thousands rulers .... rulers ..... rulers <0505 08269> [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.}
normal <06256> [at all seasons.]
difficult <01419> [great.]
judge ............. bring ........... judge .............. bear <0935 08199 05375> [they shall.]
Exodus 23:6-8
distance .... false <07368 08267> [far from.]
innocent <05355> [the innocent.]
justify <06663> [for I will not.]
accept <03947> [thou shalt take.]
see <06493> [the wise. Heb. the seeing.]
Deuteronomy 16:18-19
judges ....................... judge <08199> [Judges.]
villages <08179> [in all thy gates.]
This expression may refer to the gate of the city, as the forum or place of public concourse among the Israelites, where a court of judicature was held, to try all causes and decide all affairs. The same practice obtained among other Eastern nations. The Ottoman court, it is well known, derived its appellation of the {Porte,} from the distribution of justice and the dispatch of public business at its gates. And the square tower which forms the principal entrance to the Alhamra, or red palace of the Moorish kings of Grenada, retains to this day the appellation of the Gate of judgment, from its having been the place where justice was at one period summarily administered.
pervert <05186> [wrest.]
show <05234> [respect.]
words <01697> [words. or, matters.]
