Exodus 18:26

26And athey judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.

Deuteronomy 13:14

14then you shall inquire and make search and ask bdiligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,

Deuteronomy 17:8-10

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 cthe place that the Lord your God will choose. 9 dAnd you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and ethey 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 Kings 3:16-28

Solomon’s Wisdom

16Then two prostitutes came to the king fand stood before him. 17The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house. 18Then on the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. And we were alone. There was no one else with us in the house; only we two were in the house. 19And this woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on him. 20And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast. 21When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead. But when I looked at him closely in the morning, behold, he was not the child that I had borne.” 22But the other woman said, “No, the living child is mine, and the dead child is yours.” The first said, “No, the dead child is yours, and the living child is mine.” Thus they spoke before the king.

23Then the king said, “The one says, ‘This is my son that is alive, and your son is dead’; and the other says, ‘No; but your son is dead, and my son is the living one.’” 24And the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So a sword was brought before the king. 25And the king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.” 26Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because gher heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.” 27Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.” 28And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that hthe wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

Proverbs 25:2

2 It is the glory of God to iconceal things,
but the glory of kings is to jsearch things out.

Proverbs 29:7

7A righteous man kknows the rights of the poor;
a wicked man does not lunderstand such knowledge.
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