{"id":5237,"date":"2019-06-07T20:38:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T00:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2019-06-07T20:38:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T00:38:57","slug":"deuteronomy-113-did-moses-appoint-the-judges-or-did-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/deuteronomy-113-did-moses-appoint-the-judges-or-did-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Deuteronomy 1:13\u2014Did Moses appoint the judges or did the people?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Problem:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Ex18.25\">Exodus 18:25<\/a> declares that \u201cMoses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people.\u201d However, here Moses told the people to choose their own judges (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NKJV&amp;search=Dt1.13\">Deut. 1:13<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Solution:<\/strong> Both are correct, as is indicated only two verses later, where it says Moses \u201ctook the heads of your tribes &#8230; and made them heads [judges] over you.\u201d The people had chosen their leaders and Moses appointed these as their judges. So it is proper to speak of either Moses or the people as choosing the judges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Exodus 18:25 declares that \u201cMoses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people.\u201d However, here Moses told the people to choose their own judges (Deut. 1:13).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}