Deuteronomy 17:8

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Deuteronomy 17:8

“If any case is too difficult for you to judge—between one kind of homicide and another, between one kind of lawsuit and another, between one kind of assault and another, being controversial issues in your courts—then you shall arise and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you shall seek the Lord at the place which the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to establish His Name there for His dwelling [place], and there you shall come [to worship Him].

Haggai 2:11

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Ask the priests for a ruling:

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but every minor dispute they judged and decided themselves.

Exodus 21:12-14

“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies must be put to death.

Exodus 21:20

“If a man strikes his male or his female servant with a staff and the servant dies at his hand, he must be punished.

Exodus 21:22

“If men fight with each other and injure a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely [and the baby lives], yet there is no further injury, the one who hurt her must be punished with a fine [paid] to the woman’s husband, as much as the judges decide.

Exodus 21:28

“If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be cleared [of responsibility].

Exodus 22:2

“If a thief is caught breaking in [after dark] and is struck [by the owner] so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him.

Numbers 35:11

then you shall select for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge, so that the one who kills any person unintentionally may escape there.

Numbers 35:16

‘But if he struck his victim down [intentionally] with an iron object so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall certainly be put to death.

Numbers 35:19-34

The blood avenger shall himself put the murderer to death; he shall put him to death when he meets him.

Deuteronomy 1:17

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear and pay attention to the [cases of the] least [important] as well as the great. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you [to judge], you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’

Deuteronomy 19:4

“Now this is the case of the offender (manslayer) who may escape there and live [protected from vengeance]: when he kills his neighbor unintentionally, not having hated him previously—

Deuteronomy 19:10-11

so that innocent blood will not be shed [by blood avengers] in your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and blood guilt will not be on you [for the death of an innocent man].

Deuteronomy 19:17

then both parties to the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who will be in office at that time.

1 Kings 3:16-28

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

2 Chronicles 19:8-10

In Jerusalem also Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites, priests, and heads of the fathers’ households of Israel to render the judgment of the Lord and to judge disputes among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Psalm 122:4-5

To which the [twelve] tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord,
[As was decreed as] an ordinance for Israel,
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of the priest should guard and preserve knowledge [of My law], and the people should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

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Summary

Deuteronomy 17:8

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

Arise

Get thee up

Deuteronomy 12:5

Deuteronomy 19:17

Psalm 122:4

General references

Numbers 27:2

Deuteronomy 25:1

John 7:51

Bible References

Arise

And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but every minor dispute they judged and decided themselves.

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Ask the priests for a ruling:

For the lips of the priest should guard and preserve knowledge [of My law], and the people should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Get thee up

But you shall seek the Lord at the place which the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to establish His Name there for His dwelling [place], and there you shall come [to worship Him].

then both parties to the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who will be in office at that time.

To which the [twelve] tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord,
[As was decreed as] an ordinance for Israel,
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

General references

They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and all the congregation at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle), saying,

“If there is a controversy between men, and they go to court, and the judges decide [the issue] between them, and they judge in favor of the innocent and condemn the guilty,

“Does our Law convict someone without first giving him a hearing and finding out what he is [accused of] doing?”