Deuteronomy 16:18

Modern English Version

You must appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the Lord your God gives you, throughout your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 23:4

Twenty-four thousand of these, David said, “shall have charge of the work in the house of the Lord; six thousand shall be officers and judges,

1 Chronicles 26:29

From the Izharites, Kenaniah and his sons were assigned the outside duties for Israel, as officers and judges.

Ezra 7:25

“You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God who empowers you, appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people of the province Beyond the River, all those who know the laws of your God and those who do not, whom you must teach.

Exodus 18:21

Moreover, you shall choose out of all the people capable men who fear God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and place these men over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Exodus 21:22

If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that her child is born prematurely, yet there is no serious injury, then he shall be surely punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.

Exodus 21:6

then his master will bring him to the judges, then he shall also bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the city gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

Matthew 5:21

“You have heard that it was said by the ancients, ‘You shall not murder,’ and ‘Whoever murders shall be in danger of the judgment.’

Matthew 5:22

But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ shall be in danger of the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be in danger of the hell of fire.

Deuteronomy 16:17

Every man must give as he is able, in proportion to the blessing of the Lord your God, which He has given you.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You must not pervert judgment nor show partiality. You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 17:12

The man who acts presumptuously and does not listen to the priest who stands to minister before the Lord your God, or to the judge—that man must die, and you must purge the evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 17:9

You must go to the Levitical priests or to the judge in office those days, and inquire, and they will show you the verdict of judgment.

Deuteronomy 21:2

then your elders and your judges are to come forth, and they must measure how far it is to the cities which are around him who was slain.

Deuteronomy 25:1

If there is a controversy between men, they are to go to court for judgment, so that the judges may judge them. Then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

1 Samuel 8:1

And it came about when Samuel was old, that he installed his sons as judges for Israel.