Exodus 23:7
7 aKeep far from a false charge, and bdo not kill the innocent and righteous, for cI will not acquit the wicked.Exodus 24:14
14And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and dHur are with you. Whoever has a dispute, let him go to them.”Deuteronomy 17:8-12
Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges
8“If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to ethe place that the Lord your God will choose. 9 fAnd you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and gthey shall declare to you the decision. 10Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place that the Lord will choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you. 11According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left. 12The man who hacts presumptuously by not obeying the priest iwho stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So jyou shall purge the evil from Israel.2 Samuel 15:3
3Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.”Job 31:13
13 “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant,when they brought a complaint against me,
Acts 18:14-15
14But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious kcrime, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint. 15But lsince it is a matter of questions about words and names and myour own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things.”
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