Deuteronomy 17:8

Lighthouse Bible 2006

If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates: then shall you arise, and go up into the place which the LORD your God shall choose;

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:2

And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, What city are you from? And he said, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

1 Chronicles 26:29

Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the external affairs over Israel, for 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 seasons: the hard causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Exodus 21:20

And if a man strikes his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he dies under his hand; he shall surely be punished.

Exodus 21:22

If men argue, and hurt a woman with child, so that her baby departs from her, and yet no injury follows: he shall surely be punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

Exodus 21:28

If an ox gores a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be free.

Exodus 22:2

If a thief be found breaking in, and be struck that he dies, there shall no blood be shed for him.

Exodus 22:8

If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges, to see whether he has put his hand to his neighbor’s goods.

Ezekiel 44:24

And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

Haggai 2:11

Thus says the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

Malachi 2:7

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

Numbers 35:11

Then you shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee there, which kills any person unexpectedly.

Numbers 35:16

And if he strikes him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 1:17

You shall not favor any person in judgment; but you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it.

Deuteronomy 12:11

Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; there shall you bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow unto the LORD:

Deuteronomy 12:14

But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even to his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come:

Deuteronomy 19:17

Then both of the men between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

Deuteronomy 19:4

And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor ignorantly, whom he did not hate in time past;

Deuteronomy 21:5

And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:

Deuteronomy 25:1

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.