Deuteronomy 16:18
Justice
18“You shall appoint ajudges 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.Deuteronomy 17:8-10
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 bthe place that the Lord your God will choose. 9 cAnd you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and dthey 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.1 Chronicles 26:29-31
29Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to eexternal duties for Israel, fas officers and judges. 30Of the Hebronites, gHashabiah and his brothers, 1,700 men of ability, had the oversight of Israel westward of the Jordan for all the work of the Lord and for the service of the king. 31Of the Hebronites, hJerijah was chief of the Hebronites of whatever genealogy or fathers’ houses. (In the fortieth year of David’s reign search was made and men of great ability among them were found at iJazer in Gilead.)2 Chronicles 19:8
8Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat jappointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, kto give judgment for the Lord and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.Malachi 2:7
7For lthe lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people ▼▼Hebrew they
should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
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