Deuteronomy 17:8

Legacy Standard Bible

“If any case is too difficult for you to judge, 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 gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:2

And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way to the gate; and when any man had a case to come to the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And he would say, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”

1 Chronicles 26:29

As for the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were assigned to the outside work for Israel, as officers and judges.

Exodus 18:15

And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all times; the difficult matter they would bring to Moses, but every minor matter they themselves would judge.

Exodus 21:20

“And if a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall surely be punished.

Exodus 21:22

“And if men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband will set for him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.

Exodus 21:28

“And if an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished.

Exodus 22:2

“If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.

Exodus 22:8

If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house shall appear before the judges to determine whether he laid his hands on his neighbor’s property.

Ezekiel 44:24

And in a dispute, they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My judgments. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed times and keep My sabbaths holy.

Haggai 2:11

“Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘Ask now the priests about the law:

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of hosts.

Numbers 35:11

then you shall select for yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge, that the manslayer who has struck down any person unintentionally may flee there.

Numbers 35:16

‘But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 1:17

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’

Deuteronomy 12:11

Then it will be that the place in which Yahweh your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 12:14

but in the place which Yahweh chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you shall seek Yahweh at the place which Yahweh your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come.

Deuteronomy 19:17

then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days.

Deuteronomy 19:4

“Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: when he strikes down his friend without premeditation, not hating him previously—

Deuteronomy 21:5

Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to minister for Him and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and every dispute and every assault shall be settled by them.

Deuteronomy 25:1

“If there is a dispute between men and they go to court for judgment, and the judges judge their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,