Deuteronomy 16:18

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Summary

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

Judges

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Judges

So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.

And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:

Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:

Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,

How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

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Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.