Deuteronomy 17:8

Modern King James Version

If a matter is too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, matters of strife within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which Jehovah 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, if any man had a suit to come before 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 outward business 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 times. 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 maidservant, with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

Exodus 21:22

If men strive and strike a pregnant woman, so that her child comes out, and there is no injury, he shall surely be punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him. And he shall pay as the judges say

Exodus 21:28

If an ox gores a man or woman so that they die, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall be set free.

Exodus 22:2

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

Exodus 22:8

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

Ezekiel 44:24

And in a dispute 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 keep My sabbaths holy.

Haggai 2:11

So says Jehovah of Hosts: Now ask the priests the Law, saying,

Malachi 2:7

For the priest's lips should guard knowledge, and they should seek the Law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of Hosts.

Numbers 35:11

then you shall choose cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that the slayer who kills any person through error may flee there.

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 respect persons in judgment. 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 to me, and I will hear it.

Deuteronomy 12:11

then there shall be a place which Jehovah your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there. There you shall 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 to Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 12:14

But in the place which Jehovah 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 you shall seek to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, even to His dwelling place you shall seek, and there you shall come.

Deuteronomy 19:17

then both the men who are disagreeing shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days.

Deuteronomy 19:4

And this is the case of the slayer who shall flee there that he may live: whoever in error kills his neighbor whom he did not hate him before,

Deuteronomy 21:5

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 word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried.

Deuteronomy 25:1

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and they have been judged, and the righteous one is declared righteous, and the wrongdoer declared guilty,