If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose. Cross References Exodus 18:15 "Because the people come to me to inquire of God," Moses replied. Exodus 22:8 If the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges to determine whether he has taken his neighbor's property. Deuteronomy 12:5 Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go. Deuteronomy 12:11 then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD. Deuteronomy 25:1 If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned. 2 Chronicles 19:10 For every dispute that comes before you from your brothers who dwell in their cities--whether it regards bloodshed or some other violation of law, commandments, statutes, or ordinances--you are to warn them, so that they will not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath will not come upon you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not incur guilt. Psalm 122:5 For there the thrones of judgment stand, the thrones of the house of David. Ezekiel 44:24 In any dispute, they shall officiate as judges and judge according to My ordinances. They must keep My laws and statutes regarding all My appointed feasts, and they must keep My Sabbaths holy. Haggai 2:11 "This is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Ask the priests for a ruling. Malachi 2:7 For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts. Treasury of Scripture If there arise 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 shall you arise, and get you up into the place which the LORD your God shall choose; arise Deuteronomy 1:17 Exodus 18:26 1 Kings 3:16-28 between blood Deuteronomy 19:4,10,11 Exodus 21:12-14,20,22,28 Exodus 22:2 get thee up Deuteronomy 12:5 Deuteronomy 19:17 Psalm 122:4,5 |