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

ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it;

and they have judged the people at all times; the hard matter they bring in unto Moses, and every small matter they judge themselves.

then come in do two women, harlots, unto the king, and stand before him,

And also in Jerusalem hath Jehoshaphat appointed of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the heads of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of Jehovah, and for strife; and they turn back to Jerusalem,

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: 'Ask, I pray thee, the priests of the law, saying:

For the lips of a priest preserve knowledge, And law they do seek from his mouth, For a messenger of Jehovah of Hosts he is.

Get thee up

but unto the place which Jehovah your God doth choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, to His tabernacle ye seek, and thou hast entered thither,

then have both the men who have the strife stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who are in those days,

For thither have tribes gone up, Tribes of Jah, companies of Israel, To give thanks to the name of Jehovah.

General references

and stand before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes, and all the company, at the opening of the tent of meeting, saying:

'When there is a strife between men, and they have come nigh unto the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrong-doer,

'Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?'