 In the qualities to be sought in the judges are moral probity and piety, whereas stresses intellectual discernment.The 1639 Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony reported that John Davenport, a Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the colony, declared to all the free planters forming the colony that and described the kind of people who might best be trusted with matters of government, and the people at the meeting assented without opposition.Archeologists Israel Finkelstein of Tel Aviv University and Neil Asher Silberman noted that and report that the wandering Israelites battled at the city of Heshbon, capital of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who tried to block the Israelites from passing through his territory on their way to Canaan.