And you shall come in to the Levitical priests, and to the judge who is in those days, and shall inquire. And they shall declare the word of judgment to you.
Then they said, Come and let us plot schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, and not counsel from the wise, and not word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not attend to any of his words.
And in a dispute, they shall stand to judge, they shall judge it by My judgments. And they shall observe My laws and My statutes in My appointed feasts, and they shall sanctify My sabbaths.
So says Jehovah of Hosts: If you will walk in My ways, and if you will keep My charge, even you shall also judge My house, and shall also keep My courts, and I will give to you to walk in the midst of these standing by.
to speak to the priests who belong to the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, consecrating myself as I have done these many years?
You shall appoint judges and officers for yourself in all your gates which Jehovah your God gives you, tribe by tribe. And they shall judge the people with judgment of righteousness.
And you shall do according to the word which they declare to you from that place which Jehovah shall choose. And you shall take heed to do according to all that they direct you.
And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near (for Jehovah your God has chosen them to minister to Him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah) and by their mouth shall every controversy and every stroke be tried.
If there is a contention between men, and they come to judgment, and they judge them, and declare the one being righteous the righteous one, and declare the wicked one guilty;