The leaders ¹  of the assembly said, “How can we find wives for those who are left? ²  After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.

Boaz chose ten of the village leaders ¹  and said, “Sit down here!” So they sat down.

The king responded to the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the older men

All the leaders and people said to him, “Do not give in or agree to his demands.” ¹ 

The king responded to the people harshly. He ¹  rejected the advice of the older men

Now Elihu had waited before speaking ¹  to Job, because the others ²  were older than he was.

A poor but wise youth is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive advice.

The people will treat each other harshly; men will oppose each other; neighbors will fight. ¹  Youths will proudly defy the elderly and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected. ² 

The leaders and the highly respected people ¹  are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.

Then some of the elders of Judah ¹  stepped forward and spoke to all the people gathered there. They said,

I used you to smash men and women. I used you to smash old men and young men. I used you to smash young men and young women.

¹ The Lord said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials ²  over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you.

Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women – wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.

Before they could lie down to sleep, ¹  all the men – both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom – surrounded the house. ² 

Abraham said to his servant, the senior one ¹  in his household who was in charge of everything he had, “Put your hand under my thigh ² 

Then Isaac breathed his last and joined his ancestors. ¹  He died an old man who had lived a full life. ²  His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

We said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. ¹  The boy’s ²  brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, ³  and his father loves him.’

Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our sheep and our cattle we will go, because we are to hold ¹  a pilgrim feast for the Lord.”

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and told them, “Go and select ¹  for yourselves a lamb or young goat ²  for your families, and kill the Passover animals. ³ 

So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him,