Thematic Bible: Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure
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Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Perjury condemned
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear Me,” says the Lord of hosts.
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or has found what was lost and lied about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may do;
I will make it go forth,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and consume it with its timber and stones.”
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Litigation to be avoided
When your neighbor humiliates you?
Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints?
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Places of holding courts
She used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment.
then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Corruption of
The prince asks, also the judge, for a
And a great man speaks the desire of his soul;
So they weave it together.
Woe to those who enact evil statutes And to those who constantly record unjust decisions, So as to deprive the needy of justice And rob the poor of My people of their rights, So that widows may be their spoil And that they may plunder the orphans.
Her judges are
They leave nothing for the morning.
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Laws for judges
‘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.
"You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers in all your towns which the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. "You shall not distort justice; you shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Sentence of, final
"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 shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses. "So you shall come to the Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them and they will declare to you the verdict in the case. "You shall do according to the terms of the verdict which they declare to you from that place which the LORD chooses; and you shall be careful to observe according to all that they teach you. read more.
"According to the terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the verdict which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left.
"According to the terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the verdict which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left.
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Contempt of, punished
The man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to serve the Lord your God, nor to the judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Appeal taken
If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if none of those things is true of which these men accuse me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.”
Litigation » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Litigation to be avoided
When your neighbor humiliates you?
Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints?