Exo 21:6, Deu 16:18, 19:17-18, 1Ch 23:4, Psa 82:1 | TSK | STEP | the judges. bore his ear.This significant ceremony was intended as a mark of permanent servitude, and was calculated to impress the servant with the duty of hearing all his master's orders, and obeying them punctually. for ever.

Exodus 21:6

the judges.

22; 12:12; 18:21-26; 22:8,9,28; Nu 25:5-8; De 1:16; 16:18

De 19:17,18; 1Sa 8:1,2; Isa 1:26; Zep 3:3

bore his ear.This significant ceremony was intended as a mark of permanent servitude, and was calculated to impress the servant with the duty of hearing all his master's orders, and obeying them punctually.

Ps 40:6-8

for ever.

Le 25:23,40; De 15:17; 1Sa 1:22; 27:12; 28:2; 1Ki 12:7

Deuteronomy 16:18

Judges.

1:15-17; 17:9,12; 19:17,18; 21:2; Ex 18:25,26; 21:6; 1Ch 23:4; 26:29

2Ch 19:5-11; Ps 82:2,3; Ro 13:1-6

in all thy gates.This expression may refer to the gate of the city, as the forum or place of public concourse among the Israelites, where a court of judicature was held, to try all causes and decide all affairs. The same practice obtained among other Eastern nations. The Ottoman court, it is well known, derived its appellation of the {Porte,} from the distribution of justice and the dispatch of public business at its gates. And the square tower which forms the principal entrance to the Alhamra, or red palace of the Moorish kings of Grenada, retains to this day the appellation of the Gate of judgment, from its having been the place where justice was at one period summarily administered.

Deuteronomy 19:17-18

17:9; 21:5; Mal 2:7; Mt 23:2,3

diligent.

13:14; 17:4; 2Ch 19:6,7; Job 19:16

1 Chronicles 23:4

twenty.

28-32; 6:48; 9:28-32; 26:20-27

set forward. or, oversee.

Ne 11:9,22; Ac 20:28

officers and judges.

26:29-31; De 16:18; 17:8-10; 2Ch 19:8; Mal 2:7

Psalms 82:1

1 The psalmist, having exhorted the judges,

5 and reproved their negligence,

8 prays God to judge.

A.M. 3108. B.C. 896. (Title.) A Psalm.Some refer this psalm to the time of David, and others to that of Hezekiah; but it is more probable that it was composed when Jehoshaphat reformed the courts throughout his kingdom.

2Ch 19:6,7

of Asaph. or, for Asaph.

God, etc.Or, "God standeth in the assembly of God, {ail,} he judgeth among the judges." {Elohim:} God is among His own people; and presides especially in those courts of justice which Himself has established.

Ex 18:21; 2Ch 19:6,7; Ec 5:8

the gods.

6,7; 138:1; Ex 21:6; 22:28; Joh 10:35