Thematic Bible: An officer of civil law


Thematic Bible




And the crowd set together against them: and the generals having rent their garments, commanded to scourge with rods.

For when thou retirest with thine adversary to the ruler, in the way give labor to be released from him; lest he drag thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the avenger, and the avenger cast thee into prison.

And thou Ezra, according to the wisdom of thy God that is in thy hand, appoint judges and tribunals to be judging for all the people that are beyond the river, to all knowing the laws of thy God; and those not knowing ye shall cause to know.

And having brought them to the generals, they said, These the men who cause disturbance to our city, being Jews,

And the five men will go and come to Laish, and they will see the people which in the midst of her, dwelling in confidence according to the judgment of the Sidonians, quiet and confiding; and none shaming the word in the land, a possessor heaping up, and they far off from the Sidonians, and the word was not to them with man.

And it being day, the generals sent the bearers of the rod, saying, Loose these men.

:And the bearer of the rod announced these words to the generals: and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans.