Bible Verses About Civil Officer: Chosen by the people

Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such whose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint them your rulers.

Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.

And I took out of your tribes men wise and honourable, and appointed them rulers, tribunes, and centurions, and officers over fifties, and over tens, who might teach you all things.

And I commanded them, saying: Hear them, and judge that which is just: whether he be one of your country, or a stranger.