Deu 17:8-9, Neh 7:4-5, Psa 122:5 | ESV | STEP | 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 the place that the Lord your God will choose .

Deuteronomy 17:8-9

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 ^athe place that the Lord your God will choose. 9 ^bAnd you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and ^cthey shall declare to you the decision.

Nehemiah 7:4-5

4 The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt.

Lists of Returned Exiles

5 Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of ^dthose who came up at the first, and I found written in it:

Psalms 122:5

5 There ^ethrones for judgment were set,
the thrones of the house of David.