Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
In controversy
They shall keep
And they shall hallow
General references
Bible References
In controversy
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 should go to the place Jehovah your God chooses.
1 Chronicles 23:4
David said: Of these, twenty-four thousand are to supervise the work of Jehovah's Temple and six thousand are to be officials and judges.
2 Chronicles 19:8
Jehoshaphat also appointed some Levites, some priests, and some of the family leaders to serve as judges in Jerusalem.
Ezra 2:63
The Tirshatha (Governor) said they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by Urim and Thummim.
They shall keep
1 Timothy 3:15
though if I am delayed, so that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the household of God, which is the congregation of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.
And they shall hallow
Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the profane. They have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean. They hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Isaiah 58:13
If because of the Sabbath, you turn your foot from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and you call the Sabbath a delight and the holy of Jehovah honorable, and honor it, desisting from your ways, from seeking your own pleasure and speaking your own word,
General references
Deuteronomy 25:1
When there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case. They justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
Ezekiel 20:20
Sanctify my Sabbaths. They shall be a sign between you, and me that you may know that I am Jehovah your God.'
Haggai 2:11
He said: Ask the priests for a ruling on this question of law.