Deuteronomy 17:8

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Deuteronomy 17:8

“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 shall arise and go up 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 from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come.

Haggai 2:11

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

Exodus 18:26

They judged the people at all times; the difficult dispute they would bring to Moses, but every minor dispute they themselves would judge.

Exodus 21:12-14

“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 21:20

“If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished.

Exodus 21:22

“If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.

Exodus 21:28

“If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished.

Exodus 22:2

“If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.

Numbers 35:11

then you shall select for yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge, that the manslayer who has killed any person unintentionally may flee there.

Numbers 35:16

‘But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:19-34

The blood avenger himself shall 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 the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’

Deuteronomy 19:4

“Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: when he kills his friend unintentionally, not hating him previously—

Deuteronomy 19:10-11

So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, and bloodguiltiness be on you.

Deuteronomy 19:17

then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days.

1 Kings 3:16-28

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

2 Chronicles 19:8-10

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

Psalm 122:4-5

To which the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord—
An ordinance for Israel—
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

They judged the people at all times; the difficult dispute they would bring to Moses, but every minor dispute they themselves would judge.

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

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

For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and men 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 from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come.

then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days.

To which the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord—

An ordinance for Israel—

To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

General references

They stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the leaders and all the congregation, at the doorway of the tent of meeting, saying,

“If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

“Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”