Deuteronomy 17:9
You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.
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Deuteronomy 17:9
You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.
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Deuteronomy 17:8
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 you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.
Deuteronomy 17:9
You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.
Deuteronomy 17:10
You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you.
Deuteronomy 17:11
According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
Deuteronomy 17:12
The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 17:13
All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
Deuteronomy 19:17
then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;
Deuteronomy 19:18
and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,
Deuteronomy 19:19
then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 21:5
The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided.
Matthew 15:4
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
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Malachi 2:6
The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
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 Yahweh of Armies.
Deuteronomy 24:8
Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
Deuteronomy 33:9
He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.
Deuteronomy 33:10
They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar.
Leviticus 10:10
You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.
Leviticus 10:11
You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”
Ezekiel 44:23
They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Ezekiel 44:24
“ ‘ “In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy.
Zechariah 3:7
“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.
Haggai 2:11
“Yahweh of Armies says: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
Leviticus 13:2
“When a man shall have a swelling in his body’s skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests.
2 Chronicles 17:7
Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;
Jeremiah 15:19
Therefore Yahweh says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.
Luke 17:14
When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” As they went, they were cleansed.
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2 Chronicles 19:5
He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
2 Chronicles 19:6
and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.
2 Chronicles 19:7
Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”
2 Chronicles 19:8
Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites, priests, and heads of the fathers’ households of Israel to give judgment for Yahweh and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 19:9
He commanded them, saying, “You shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
2 Chronicles 19:10
Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty toward Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.
Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 1:15
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
Deuteronomy 1:16
I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
Deuteronomy 1:17
You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
1 Chronicles 23:4
David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,
1 Chronicles 26:29
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
Ezra 10:14
Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”
Psalms 122:5
For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David’s house.
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Deuteronomy 17:18
It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.
Deuteronomy 18:1
The priests and the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire and his portion.
Deuteronomy 27:9
Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silent and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of Yahweh your God.
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Exodus 18:18
You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
Exodus 18:19
Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
Exodus 18:20
You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
Exodus 18:21
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exodus 18:22
Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.
Exodus 18:23
If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”
Exodus 18:24
So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
Exodus 18:25
Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exodus 18:26
They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Exodus 18:13
On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
Exodus 18:14
When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?”
Exodus 18:16
When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”
Numbers 15:33
Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.
Numbers 27:2
They stood before Moses, before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,
Judges 4:5
She lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
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Joshua 3:3
and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, and the Levitical priests bearing it, then leave your place and follow it.
2 Chronicles 30:27
Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
Isaiah 66:21
Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 44:15
“ ‘ “But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 43:19
You shall give to the Levitical priests who are of the offspring of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘a young bull for a sin offering.
Jeremiah 33:18
The Levitical priests won’t lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.”
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Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”
Zechariah 7:3
and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
2 Chronicles 17:8
and with them Levites, even Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.
Malachi 2:5
“My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.
Matthew 2:4
Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.
John 1:19
This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
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2 Samuel 15:2
Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”
2 Samuel 15:3
Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”
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Deuteronomy 17:2
If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,
Deuteronomy 17:3
and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,
Deuteronomy 17:4
and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,
Deuteronomy 17:5
then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
Deuteronomy 17:6
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Deuteronomy 17:7
The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
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1 Kings 3:16
Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.
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Matthew 23:2
saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.
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Matthew 23:3
All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.
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