Exodus 18:21

18:21

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.}

Exodus 18:25

18:25

Exodus 34:7

34:7

keeping <05341> [Keeping.]

forgiving <05375> [forgiving.]

means ..... unpunished <05352> [that will by no means clear the guilty.]

The Hebrew {nakkeh lo yenakkeh,} has been rendered "Acquitting him who is not innocent." Nothing can more strongly express the goodness of God to frail mortals than this declaration, "which has been misunderstood and misinterpreted by all our translators."

responding <06485> [visiting.]