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1 Kings 3:20
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

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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 18:15
Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

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.”

1 Kings 10:1
When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

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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.

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.”

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.

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 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.

Haggai 2:11
“Yahweh of Armies says: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

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.

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Deuteronomy 13:14
then you shall inquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you,

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 29:7
The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

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2 Samuel 4:7
Now when they came into the house as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

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1 Kings 8:14
The king turned his face around and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood.

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Job 9:33
There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

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Job 24:13
“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

Job 24:14
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

Job 24:15
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.

Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

Job 24:17
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

Psalms 139:11
If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”

Matthew 13:25
but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

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Proverbs 16:10
Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

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