Psalm 122:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

For there are set thrones for judgement, The thrones of the house of David.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For there are set thrones of judgment, The thrones of the house of David.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For there the thrones of judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.

American Standard Version (1901)

For there are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of the house of David.

Common English Bible

because the thrones of justice are there— the thrones of the house of David!

Psalm 122:5 Cross References

2 Samuel 8:18

and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were priests.

1 Kings 7:7

And he made the porch of the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgement: and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

2 Chronicles 11:22

And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, even the prince among his brethren: for he was minded to make him king.

2 Chronicles 19:8

Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' houses of Israel, for the judgement of the LORD, and for controversies. And they returned to Jerusalem.

Deuteronomy 17:18

And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

Deuteronomy 17:8

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgement, 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 unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;