Exodus 18:13
13The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening.Exodus 18:16
16 awhen they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I bmake them know the statutes of God and his laws.”Exodus 18:19
19Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall crepresent the people before God and dbring their cases to God,Exodus 18:26
26And ethey judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.Deuteronomy 17:8-12
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 fthe place that the Lord your God will choose. 9 gAnd you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and hthey 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. 11According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left. 12The man who iacts presumptuously by not obeying the priest jwho stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So kyou shall purge the evil from Israel.2 Samuel 15:2-6
2And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside lthe way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And when he said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,” 3Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.” 4Then Absalom would say, m“Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.” 5And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him. 6Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
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