Deuteronomy 17:8

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;

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

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.’

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.

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.

“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?”