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 21:2

2then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.

Deuteronomy 25:7

7And if the man does not wish to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall bgo up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’

Zechariah 13:3

3And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, c‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.

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