Deuteronomy 17:8

If a matter is too difficult for you to judge -- bloodshed, legal claim, or assault -- matters of controversy in your villages -- you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

Haggai 2:11

"The Lord who rules over all says, 'Ask the priests about the law.

Exodus 18:26

They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.

Exodus 21:12-14

"Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

Exodus 21:20

"If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

Exodus 21:22

"If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman's husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.

Exodus 21:28

"If an ox gores a man or a woman so that either dies, then the ox must surely be stoned and its flesh must not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.

Exodus 22:2

"If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

Numbers 35:11

you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.

Numbers 35:16

"But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:19-34

The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.

Deuteronomy 1:17

They must not discriminate in judgment, but hear the lowly and the great alike. Nor should they be intimidated by human beings, for judgment belongs to God. If the matter being adjudicated is too difficult for them, they should bring it before me for a hearing.

Deuteronomy 19:4

Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live, if he has accidentally killed another without hating him at the time of the accident.

Deuteronomy 19:10-11

You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

Deuteronomy 19:17

then both parties to the controversy must stand before the Lord, that is, before the priests and judges who will be in office in those days.

1 Kings 3:16-28

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

2 Chronicles 19:8-10

In Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed some Levites, priests, and Israelite family leaders to judge on behalf of the Lord and to settle disputes among the residents of Jerusalem.

Psalm 122:4-5

The tribes go up there, the tribes of the Lord, where it is required that Israel give thanks to the name of the Lord.

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him because he is the messenger of the Lord who rules over all.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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;

Bible References

Arise

Deuteronomy 1:17
They must not discriminate in judgment, but hear the lowly and the great alike. Nor should they be intimidated by human beings, for judgment belongs to God. If the matter being adjudicated is too difficult for them, they should bring it before me for a hearing.
Exodus 18:26
They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.
1 Kings 3:16
Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
2 Chronicles 19:8
In Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed some Levites, priests, and Israelite family leaders to judge on behalf of the Lord and to settle disputes among the residents of Jerusalem.
Haggai 2:11
"The Lord who rules over all says, 'Ask the priests about the law.
Malachi 2:7
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him because he is the messenger of the Lord who rules over all.

Get thee up

Deuteronomy 12:5
But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.
Deuteronomy 19:17
then both parties to the controversy must stand before the Lord, that is, before the priests and judges who will be in office in those days.
Psalm 122:4
The tribes go up there, the tribes of the Lord, where it is required that Israel give thanks to the name of the Lord.

General references

Numbers 27:2
And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,
Deuteronomy 25:1
If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.
John 7:51
"Our law doesn't condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?"

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