(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Deuteronomy 1:9–18, “And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!) How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it. And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.”
Moses began this last task by reminding Israel that he was not able to lead the entire nation by himself. When the foundational leader of a nation or an organisation needs to be replaced there are many in the organisation who won’t accept any other leader because they believe that the first leader is the only one that can do the task. The Lord approached Moses in the Midianite desert and told him to deliver Israel from slavery. Moses asked the Lord to give him another person who could speak better than he could do the Lord gave him Aaron, his brother. However, when Israel went into the wilderness it wasn’t long before the Lord appointed other people to take some of Moses authority and administer the Law that the Lord God gave to Moses. All the people who were alive at that stage, apart from Moses, Joshua and Caleb, had reached adulthood under this system. All the people there were used to the fact that Moses was not God and that Moses required help to lead and rule the people as God’s representative. This meant that these people were used to serving under leaders other than Moses. Before long Moses was going to die and the Lord would replace him with another leader. This meant that these people would have to accept the new leadership. Mose also reminded the people that these people were still under God and everyone was required to administer the Lord’s Law without prejudice and treat every person with the same dignity.
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