Thematic Bible: Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure
Thematic Bible
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Perjury condemned
I will approach you people for judgment! I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers and those acting fraudulently with the wages of the worker, the widow and the fatherless. I will be a speedy witness against those who swear falsely and take advantage of the stranger, and do not show me reverence, said Jehovah of Hosts.
Verse Concepts
If you find something that someone lost and lie about it under oath, or commit any other sin like this,
Do not swear falsely by my name, so as to profane the name of your God. I am Jehovah.
I will cause it to happen, said Jehovah of Hosts, and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of he who swears falsely by my name. The curse will abide in the midst of his house and will consume it with the timber and the stones of the house.
It is for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and everything else that is contrary to the sound teaching.
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Litigation to be avoided
If someone takes you to court to sue you and takes your shirt, let him have your coat as well.
Come to an agreement quickly with the one who has a legal case against you. Do it before he turns the case over to the judge and you are thrown into jail.
Do not run quickly to court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame.
If you have a dispute with another [Christian] do you dare to go to a law court before judges who are ungodly? Why not let the holy ones decide who is right?
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Places of holding courts
She held court under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim. The children of Israel came to her for judgment.
His father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.
If the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say: My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Corruption of
They diligently seek to do evil with their hands. The prince asks and the judge is ready for a bribe. The great man utters his own evil desire. They weave it together.
How horrible it will be for those who enact unjust laws and who decree oppressive regulations. They deprive the poor of justice. They take away the rights of the needy among my people. They prey on widows and rob orphans.
Her princes (rulers) within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morning.
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Laws for judges
Do no injustice in judgment. Do not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great. Judge your neighbor fairly.
Appoint judges and officers for your tribes in every city Jehovah your God gives you. They are to judge the people fairly. Never pervert justice. Always be impartial. Never take a bribe, because bribes blind wise people and deny justice to those who are in the right.
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Sentence of, final
If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you should go to the place Jehovah your God chooses. Approach the Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days. Inquire of them and they will declare to you the verdict in the case. Act according to the terms of the verdict they declare to you from that place Jehovah chooses. Be careful to abide by all that they teach you. read more.
Act according to the verdict and the terms they tell you. Do not turn away from the word they declare to you.
Act according to the verdict and the terms they tell you. Do not turn away from the word they declare to you.
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Contempt of, punished
The man who acts presumptuously and does not listen to the priest or the judge will die. This way you will purge the evil from Israel. The priests and judges are there to serve Jehovah your God.
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Appeal taken
If I am a wrongdoer, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if charges brought against me by the Jews are not true no man has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.
Litigation » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Litigation to be avoided
If someone takes you to court to sue you and takes your shirt, let him have your coat as well.
Come to an agreement quickly with the one who has a legal case against you. Do it before he turns the case over to the judge and you are thrown into jail.
Do not run quickly to court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame.
If you have a dispute with another [Christian] do you dare to go to a law court before judges who are ungodly? Why not let the holy ones decide who is right?