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;
Get thee up
General references
Bible References
Arise
Deuteronomy 1:17
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.
Exodus 18:26
And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
1 Kings 3:16
Then came there two women, that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him.
2 Chronicles 19:8
Moreover, in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.
Haggai 2:11
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
Malachi 2:7
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
Get thee up
Deuteronomy 12:5
But the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
Deuteronomy 19:17
Then both the men between whom the controversy is shall stand before the LORD, before the priests, and the judges, who shall be in those days;
Psalm 122:4
Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, to the testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
General references
Numbers 27:2
And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes, and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there shall be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
John 7:51
Doth our law judge any man before it heareth him, and knoweth what he doeth?