Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Courts of justice » Judges of » To judge righteously
‘You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
“The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.
Horeb » A range of mountains of which mount sinai is the most prominent
“Then we set out from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as the Lord our God had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
And worshiped a molten image.
“The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.
So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.
Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me, that I may let them hear My words so they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’
“So watch yourselves carefully, since you did not see any form on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire,
Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you.
“Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.