Deuteronomy 22:17 and behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying,'I didn't find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;' and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity." They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 22:18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 25:7 If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, "My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, "I don't want to take her;" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 25:9 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, "So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 27:1 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep all the commandment which I command you this day. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 29:10 You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 31:9 Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 31:28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Joshua 7:6 Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Joshua 8:10 Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Joshua 8:33 All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh's covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Joshua 9:11 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying,'Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, "We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us."' (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Joshua 20:4 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Joshua 23:2 that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, "I am old and well advanced in years. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Joshua 24:1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Joshua 24:31 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 2:7 The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 8:14 He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 8:16 He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 11:5 It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 11:7 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Didn't you hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Judges 11:8 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 11:9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them before me, shall I be your head?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Judges 11:10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Yahweh shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 11:11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 21:16 Then the elders of the congregation said, "How shall we provide wives for those who remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ruth 4:2 He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, "Sit down here." They sat down. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ruth 4:4 I thought to disclose it to you, saying,'Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.' If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you." He said, "I will redeem it." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ruth 4:9 Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, "You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ruth 4:11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 4:3 When the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us get the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 11:3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven day, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 15:30 Then he said, "I have sinned: yet honor me now, please, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 16:4 Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, "Do you come peaceably?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:26 When David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, "Behold, a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 3:17 Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, "In times past, you sought for David to be king over you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 5:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 12:17 The elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 17:4 The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 17:15 Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, "Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 19:11 King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah, saying,'Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 8:3 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 12:6 And king Rehoboam consulteth with the elders who have been standing in the presence of Solomon his father, in his being alive, saying, 'How are ye counselling to answer this people?' (YLT NAS NIV)
1 Kings 12:8 And he forsaketh the counsel of the elders which they counselled him, and consulteth with the lads who have grown up with him, who are standing before him; (YLT NAS NIV)
1 Kings 12:13 And the king answereth the people sharply, and forsaketh the counsel of the elders which they counselled him, (YLT NAS NIV)
1 Kings 20:7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, "Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny him." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 20:8 All the elders and all the people said to him, "Don't listen, neither consent." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 21:8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 21:11 The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 6:32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 10:1 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up the sons of Ahab, saying, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 10:5 He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 19:2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
2 Kings 23:1 The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Chronicles 11:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of Yahweh by Samuel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Chronicles 15:25 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Chronicles 21:16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 5:4 All the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Chronicles 10:6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people? (See NAS NIV)
2 Chronicles 10:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. (See NAS NIV)
2 Chronicles 10:13 The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men, (See NAS NIV)
2 Chronicles 34:29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 5:5 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and then answer should be returned by letter concerning it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 5:9 Then asked we those elders, and said to them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 6:7 Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 6:8 Moreover I make a decree what you shall do to these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses be given with all diligence to these men, that they be not hindered. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 6:14 The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. the lowest (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 10:8 and that whoever didn't come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezra 10:14 Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter be dispatched. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Job 12:20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders. (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)
Job 32:9 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice. (See NAS)
Psalms 105:22 to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 107:32 Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 119:100 I understand more than mine elders, because I have keep Thy precepts. (JPS YLT NIV)
Proverbs 31:23 Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 3:14 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders will be glory. (WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 37:2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Jeremiah 19:1 Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests; (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 26:17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 29:1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Lamentations 1:19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Lamentations 2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Lamentations 4:16 The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't favor the elders. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Lamentations 5:12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Lamentations 5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS NIV)
Ezekiel 7:26 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 8:1 It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there on me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 8:11 There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 8:12 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land. (WEB JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 9:6 slay utterly the old man, the young man and the maiden, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.' Then they began at the elders that were before the house. (JPS DBY NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 20:1 It happened in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 20:3 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 27:9 The elders of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to exchange thy merchandise. (JPS DBY YLT NAS RSV)