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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.

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Genesis 41:33
“Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

Proverbs 31:4
It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’

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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.

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.

1 Samuel 7:16
He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

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Exodus 21:6
then his master shall bring him to God, and shall 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.

Exodus 22:8
If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out whether or not he has put his hand on his neighbor’s goods.

Exodus 22:28
“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

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;

1 Samuel 8:1
When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

Psalms 82:1
God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

Psalms 82:3
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

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Deuteronomy 16:22
Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.

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Deuteronomy 20:5
The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

Joshua 1:10
Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,

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Joshua 20:4
He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

Joshua 23:2
Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.

Joshua 24:1
Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

1 Kings 21:8
So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

Proverbs 31:23
Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

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Exodus 23:6
“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

Exodus 23:7
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

Isaiah 11:3
His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

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Ezra 7:25
You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

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Romans 13:3
For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the authority,

Romans 13:4
for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

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