Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 18:21

21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men , such as fear God ; men of truth , hating covetousness , and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Heb. men of might, not for strength of body, but for greatness, resolution, courage, and constancy of mind, which is the best preservative against partiality and corruption in judgement, to which men of little minds or narrow souls are easily swayed by fears or hopes or gifts.

Which will restrain them from all injustice, even when they have ability and opportunity to do wrong so cunningly or powerfully, that they may escape the observation and censure of men.

Or, of faith, or faithful, such as love the truth, and diligently labour to find it out in all causes, and then pass a true and righteous sentence, not at all respecting persons, but onely the truth and right of their causes, such as hate lies and slanders, and will severely rebuke and punish them.

This, though included in the former, is particularly expressed, because gifts and bribes are the great corrupters of Judges and judgments.

Marginal references: Deut. 1. 16. and 16. 18. [illegible: 1+ letters] Chro. 19. 7, 9.