mous, and had in Reputation, for Ability and Integrity : For to ſuch they would more readily ſubmit.
14 Andye anſwered me, and ſaid,The thing which thou haſt ſpoken js good for #s to do.
15 Sol rook the chief r of your tribes, wiſe nzen and known, and + made them heads over you ; captains o- t Heb. ver thouſands, and captains over hundreds, and captains **** over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers 5s among your tribes.
7 Not in Authority, which yet they had nor, but in endowments for good government. 5s Inferiour Officers, that were to attend upon the Superiour Magiſtrates, and to execute their Decrees.
16 And lcharged your Judges at that time, ſaying, * Joh. y. Hear the cauſes between yourbrethren, and * judge righ- i teouſly between every man and * his brother, and the "EV: 24 ſtranger that is with him 7. "I
# That converſeth or dealeth with him. To ſuch God: would have Juſtice equally adminiſtred as to his own people, partly for the honour of Religion, and partly for the intereſt whigh every man hath in matters of common right. he
17 * Ye ſhall not} reſpe&perſons «in Jadgergent, bur ye thall hear the ſmall x as well as the great, ye fall not be afraid of the face of man : For the judgement is Gods
): and the cauſe that is too hard for you, me, and ] will hear jt.
» Heb; Not know, or acknowledge Faces, i. e. Not give ſentence according to the outward qualities of the perſon, as he is poor or rich, your Friend or Enemy,but purely according to the merits of the cauie. For which reaſon ſome of the Grecian Law-givers ordered that rhe Judges ſhould give ſentence inthe dark where they could nor ſce mens faces. Sce the ſame or the like phraſe, Deur. 10. 17. 2 Chron: i9, 6, 7. Job 13. 8. Jam. 2.1, 9g, x Perſons of the meaneſt rank » (7. e.) It is paſſed in the name of God, and by commiſſion fiom him, by you as repreſ-nting his perſon, and doing his work, who therefore will own and defend you therein againſt all your Enemies, and ro whom you muſt give an exaC account.
18 AndIcommanded you at that timeall the things which ye ſhall do z.
z I delivered unto you,
Laws, Statutes, in Horeb.
19And when we departedfrom Horeb,we went through all chat'great and terrible}wilderneſs, which yeſaw by the + Thc; way ofthemountain of theAmorices,astheLOR DourGod of Poron, commanded us, and* we came to Kadeſh-Barnea. Num. 10, 20 And I faid unto you, Yeare come unto the moun- *Numb tain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth 1; 14) give unto us. Þ- 21 Behold the LORD thy God hath ſer the land be- fore thee : Go up, and poſleſs ir, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath ſaid unto thee: Fear not, neither be dilcouraged. % 22 Andye came near unto me every-one of you, and ſaid, We will ſend men before us, and they ſhall ſearch us out the land, and bring us word again, by what way we mult go up, and into what cities we ſhall come. 23 And the ſaying pleaſed me well b: And * Itook *Nymb.
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bring if unto Sam. 16. 7. Prov.
24. 23. THeb. knowledge
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and eſpecially unto your Judges,a!l the and Judgements revealed unto me by the Lord
twelve men of you, one of a tribe. 13. 3- b For there ſeemed to be ſome prudence and good policy in it : bur
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