Deuteronomy 17:8

Modern English Version

If there arises a matter too difficult for you in judgment, between one kind of bloodshed and another, between one kind of lawsuit and another, and between one kind of assault and another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you must arise and go up to the place where the Lord your God shall choose.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:2

Absalom would go early and stand beside the way into the gate. When any man who had a dispute concerning which he had come to the king for a judgment approached, Absalom would call to him and say, “Which city are you from?” And he would say, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”

1 Chronicles 26:29

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

Exodus 18:15

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

Exodus 18:26

They judged the people at all times. They brought the difficult cases to Moses, but they judged every small matter themselves.

Exodus 21:20

If a man strikes his male or female servant with a rod and the servant dies at his hand, then he shall surely be punished.

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 21:28

If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, then the ox must surely be stoned and its flesh must not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.

Exodus 22:2

If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, then there will be no blood guilt for him.

Exodus 22:8

If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house will be brought before the judges to determine if he has laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods.

Ezekiel 44:24

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 make holy My Sabbaths.

Haggai 2:11

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Now ask the priests concerning the law, saying,

Malachi 2:7

For a priest’s lips should preserve knowledge, and people should seek the law from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.

Numbers 35:11

then you shall designate cities as your cities of refuge, so that a manslayer who unintentionally kills a person may flee there.

Numbers 35:16

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 show partiality in judgment, but you shall hear the small as well as the great. You shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.”

Deuteronomy 12:11

then there will be a place which the Lord your God will choose to cause His name to dwell. There you must bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, the offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:14

Rather, in the place which the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, there you must offer your burnt offerings, and there you must do all that I command you.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you must seek only the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to establish His name, and there you must go.

Deuteronomy 19:17

then both the men between whom the controversy is must stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, who are in office those days.

Deuteronomy 19:4

This is the word concerning the manslayer who will flee there, so that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, whom he did not hate previously,

Deuteronomy 21:5

Then the priests, the sons of Levi, must 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 every controversy and every assault will be settled.

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.