Deuteronomy 17:8

New American Bible - revised edition

If there is a case for judgment which proves too baffling for you to decide, in a matter of bloodshed or of law or of injury, matters of dispute within your gates, you shall then go up to the place which the Lord, your God, will choose,

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:2

Moreover, Absalom used to rise early and stand alongside the road leading to the gate. If someone had a lawsuit to be decided by the king, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And when he replied, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe of Israel,”

1 Chronicles 26:29

Among the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were in charge of Israel’s civil affairs as officials and judges.

Exodus 18:15

Moses answered his father-in-law, “The people come to me to consult God.

Exodus 18:26

They rendered decisions for the people in all routine cases. The more difficult cases they referred to Moses, but all the lesser cases they settled themselves.

Exodus 21:20

When someone strikes his male or female slave with a rod so that the slave dies under his hand, the act shall certainly be avenged.

Exodus 21:22

When men have a fight and hurt a pregnant woman, so that she suffers a miscarriage, but no further injury, the guilty one shall be fined as much as the woman’s husband demands of him, and he shall pay in the presence of the judges.

Exodus 21:28

When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned; its meat may not be eaten. The owner of the ox, however, shall be free of blame.

Exodus 22:2

But if after sunrise he is thus beaten, there is bloodguilt.] He must make full restitution. If he has nothing, he shall be sold to pay for his theft.

Exodus 22:8

In every case of dishonest appropriation, whether it be about an ox, or a donkey, or a sheep, or a garment, or anything else that has disappeared, where another claims that the thing is his, the claim of both parties shall be brought before God; the one whom God convicts must make twofold restitution to the other.

Ezekiel 44:24

In legal cases they shall stand as judges, judging according to my ordinances. They shall observe all my laws and statutes regarding all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my sabbaths holy.

Haggai 2:11

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests for a ruling:

Malachi 2:7

For a priest’s lips preserve knowledge, and instruction is to be sought from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 35:11

select for yourselves cities to serve as cities of asylum, where a homicide who has killed someone inadvertently may flee.

Numbers 35:16

If someone strikes another with an iron instrument and causes death, that person is a murderer, and the murderer must be put to death.

Deuteronomy 1:17

In rendering judgment, do not consider who a person is; give ear to the lowly and to the great alike, fearing no one, for the judgment is God’s. Any case that is too difficult for you bring to me and I will hear it.”

Deuteronomy 12:11

then to the place which the Lord, your God, chooses as the dwelling place for his name you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and personal contributions, and every special offering you have vowed to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:14

but offer them in the place which the Lord chooses in one of your tribal territories; there you shall do what I command you. Profane and Sacred Slaughter.

Deuteronomy 12:5

Instead, you shall seek out the place which the Lord, your God, chooses out of all your tribes and designates as his dwelling to put his name there. There you shall go,

Deuteronomy 19:17

the two parties in the dispute shall appear in the presence of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and judges in office at that time,

Deuteronomy 19:4

This is the case of a homicide who may take refuge there and live: when someone strikes down a neighbor unintentionally and not out of previous hatred.

Deuteronomy 21:5

The priests, the descendants of Levi, shall come forward, for the Lord, your God, has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the name of the Lord, and every case of dispute or assault shall be for them to decide.

Deuteronomy 25:1

When there is a dispute and the parties draw near for judgment, and a decision is given, declaring one party in the right and the other in the wrong,