Deuteronomy 22:18

Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”

These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

“ ‘When a ruler sins, and unwittingly does any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house.

If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

With him were ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were each head of their fathers’ houses among the thousands of Israel.

His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;

It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

As he went to Ziklag, some from Manasseh joined him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh.

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.

A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.

He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.