Deuteronomy 1:13-17

13 aChoose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’ 14And you answered me, ‘The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’ 15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, band set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes. 16And I charged your judges at that time, ‘Hear the cases between your brothers, and cjudge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him. 17 dYou shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for ethe judgment is God’s. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall fbring to me, and I will hear it.’

Deuteronomy 16:18

Justice

18“You shall appoint gjudges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

2 Chronicles 19:5-10

5He appointed hjudges in the land in all ithe fortified cities of Judah, city by city, 6and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, jfor you judge not for man but for the Lord. He is with you in giving judgment. 7Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for kthere is no injustice with the Lord our God, lor partiality or taking bribes.”

8Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat mappointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, nto give judgment for the Lord and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem. 9And he charged them: oThus you shall do in the fear of the Lord, in faithfulness, pand with your whole heart: 10 qwhenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the Lord and rwrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.

Psalms 14:4

4 Have they no sknowledge, all the evildoers
who teat up my people as they eat bread
and udo not call upon the Lord?

Psalms 82:1-5

Rescue the Weak and Needy

A Psalm of vAsaph.

1 wGod xhas taken his place in the divine council;
in the midst of ythe gods he zholds judgment:
2How long will you judge unjustly
and aashow partiality to abthe wicked?  Selah
3 acGive justice to adthe weak and the fatherless;
aemaintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
4 afRescue the weak and the needy;
agdeliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
5 ahThey have neither knowledge nor understanding,
aithey walk about in darkness;
ajall the foundations of the earth are akshaken.

Jeremiah 5:4-5

4 Then I said, “These are only the poor;
they have no sense;
alfor they do not know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
5I will go to the great
and will speak to them,
for they know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.”
amBut they all alike had broken the yoke;
they had burst the bonds.

1 Corinthians 6:5

5 anI say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,
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