Deuteronomy 1:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

Charged

Hear

John 7:24

The stranger

Leviticus 24:22

General references

Numbers 30:1

Proverbs 31:9

John 7:24

Bible References

Charged

And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

And LORD said to Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a command. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of mee

and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation, and give him a charge in their sight.

just as ye know, as each one of you as a father of his own children, imploring you, and comforting,

I solemnly testify before God, and Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen agents, that thou keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing from partiality.

Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,

Hear

Thou shall make judges and officers for thee in all thy gates, which LORD thy God gives thee, according to thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Thou shall not follow a multitude to do evil, neither shall thou speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort [justice],

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. Thou shall not respect the person of the poor man, nor honor the person of the mighty man, but thou shall judge thy neighbor in righteousness.

The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me. He who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

and said to the judges, Consider what ye do. For ye judge not for man, but for LORD, and [he is] with you in the judgment.

Do ye indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

The stranger

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner in giving him food and raiment.

Thou shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brothers, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates.

And thou shall not wrong a sojourner, neither shall thou oppress him, for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

And thou shall not oppress a sojourner, for ye know the heart of a sojourner, since ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Ye shall have one manner of law, as for the sojourner, as for the home-born, for I am LORD your God.

General references

And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying, This is the thing which LORD has commanded.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the poor and needy.

Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.