2 Chronicles 19:5

2 Chronicles 19:5
He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

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Genesis 22:12
He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Genesis 42:18
Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Exodus 23:2
“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

Exodus 23:3
You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.

Exodus 23:4
“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

Exodus 23:5
If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.

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.

Exodus 23:8
“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

Exodus 23:9
“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

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,

1 Kings 18:3
Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;

1 Kings 18:12
It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

Nehemiah 5:9
Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

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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.

Deuteronomy 1:13
Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”

Deuteronomy 1:14
You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”

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 1:17
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.”

Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

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

Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.

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.”

Psalms 82:5
They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Jeremiah 22:3
Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

Micah 3:1
I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?

Luke 3:14
Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

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Exodus 21:22
“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.

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 17:10
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.

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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.

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Deuteronomy 17:19
It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

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Judges 8:22
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son’s son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”

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Judges 8:23
Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.”

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

1 Timothy 5:21
I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

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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;

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2 Chronicles 17:9
They taught in Judah, having the book of Yahweh’s law with them. They went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

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2 Chronicles 19:1
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.

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2 Chronicles 20:1
After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

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2 Chronicles 20:4
Judah gathered themselves together to seek help from Yahweh. They came out of all the cities of Judah to seek Yahweh.

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2 Chronicles 32:1
After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself.

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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.”

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Psalms 69:35
For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.

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Jeremiah 5:4
Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.

Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

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Matthew 5:21
“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’

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Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

Luke 18:4
He wouldn’t for a while; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,

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Romans 13:1
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

Romans 13:2
Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

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.

Romans 13:5
Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

1 Peter 2:13
Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme,

1 Peter 2:14
or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

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1 Corinthians 6:5
I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

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