Deuteronomy 17:8

Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges

8If 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 athe place that the Lord your God will choose.

Deuteronomy 17:18

18“And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, bhe shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, capproved by
Hebrew from before
the Levitical priests.

2 Chronicles 19:8

8Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat eappointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, fto give judgment for the Lord and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.
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