Deuteronomy 1:13

“Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.”

"Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you." - Deuteronomy 1:13
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What does Deuteronomy 1:13 mean?

Deuteronomy 1:13 in the King James Version reads, "Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you." This verse is part of Moses' final speech to the Israelites, in which he reviews their journey from Egypt to the Promised…

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The Power of Wise Leadership

In Deuteronomy 1:13, we find a crucial directive from Moses to the Israelites as they prepare to enter the Promised Land: "Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you." This verse beckons us to reflect on the profound…

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A Prayer for Wisdom and Leadership

O Sovereign God, the Creator of all wisdom and knowledge, I humbly come before You, seeking Your guidance as I reflect upon the profound words of Deuteronomy 1:13: "Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you." Lord, I…

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Deuteronomy 1:13 - "Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you."
Deuteronomy 13:1 - "If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,"
"If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder," - Deuteronomy 13:1
Deuteronomy 1:3 - "And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;"
Deuteronomy 14:13 - "And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,"
Deuteronomy 18:13 - "Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God."
Deuteronomy 17:13 - "And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously."
Deuteronomy 25:13 - "¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small."
Deuteronomy 5:13 - "Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:"
Deuteronomy 22:13 - "¶ If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,"
Deuteronomy 6:13 - "Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name."
Deuteronomy 13:11 - "And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you."
Deuteronomy 12:13 - "Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:"
Deuteronomy 27:13 - "And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali."
Deuteronomy 10:13 - "To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?"
Deuteronomy 13:13 - "Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;"
Deuteronomy 9:13 - "Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:"
Deuteronomy 33:13 - "¶ And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,"
"And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind," - Deuteronomy 14:13
"Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God." - Deuteronomy 18:13
Deuteronomy 13:14 - "Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;"
Deuteronomy 8:13 - "And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;"
Deuteronomy 16:13 - "¶ Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:"
Deuteronomy 2:13 - "Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered."
Deuteronomy 15:13 - "And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:"
Deuteronomy 32:41
Deuteronomy 32:43
Deuteronomy 13:12 - "¶ If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,"
Deuteronomy 19:13 - "Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee."