Deuteronomy 1:14-15 - Exposition

The people approved of the proposal, and acted upon it; and Moses accordingly appointed the persons selected to be chiefs over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and ever tens ( Exodus 18:21 ); he appointed men also to be officers , that is, persons who should preserve order in the tribes, keeping the registers, acting as scribes, to prescribe and to take account of work, and perhaps also attending to fiscal arrangements ( שֹׁטְרִים , shoterim , a word of general application; cf. Exodus 5:6 , Exodus 5:10 , Exodus 5:14 ; Joshua 3:2 ; 2 Chronicles 26:11 , etc. LXX . γραμματεῖς and γραμματο εισαγωγεῖς ). In Exodus, Moses is said to have chosen these functionaries ( Exodus 18:25 ); but what many do under the direction of one may be said to be done by him.