Bible Cross References
the twelve
Acts 21:22
"What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.
It
Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.
Acts 25:27
"For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to specify the charges against him."
we should
Exodus 18:17-26
17
So Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do [is] not good.
18
"Both you and these people who [are] with you will surely wear yourselves out. For this thing [is] too much for you; you are not able to perform it by yourself.
19
"Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God will be with you: Stand before God for the people, so that you may bring the difficulties to God.
20
"And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.
21
"Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [such] over them [to be] rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
22
"And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be [that] every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they themselves shall judge. So it will be easier for you, for they will bear [the burden] with you.
23
"If you do this thing, and God [so] commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will also go to their place in peace."
24
So Moses heeded the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.
25
And 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.
26
So they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but they judged every small case themselves.
Numbers 11:11-13
11
So Moses said to the LORD, "Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all these people on me?
12
"Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,' to the land which You swore to their fathers?
13
"Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep all over me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'
Deuteronomy 1:9-14
9
" And I spoke to you at that time, saying: 'I alone am not able to bear you.
10
'The LORD your God has multiplied you, and here you [are] today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.
11
'May the LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you!
12
'How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?
13
'Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.'
14
"And you answered me and said, 'The thing which you have told [us] to do [is] good.'
Nehemiah 6:3
So I sent messengers to them, saying, "I [am] doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?"
2 Timothy 2:4
No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of [this] life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.