Exodus 18:26

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Summary

And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

At all

Exodus 18:14

The hard causes

Job 29:16

Bible References

At all

Now when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge and all the people stand about you from morning until evening?”

The hard causes

Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

“If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses.

Then two women who were harlots came to the king and stood before him.

Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with difficult questions.

“I was a father to the needy,
And I investigated the case which I did not know.