Deuteronomy 17:8

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Deuteronomy 17:8

“If a case is too difficult for you—concerning bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults—cases disputed at your gates, you must go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.

Deuteronomy 12:5

Instead, you must turn to the place Yahweh your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling and go there.

Haggai 2:11

“This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Ask the priests for a ruling.

Exodus 18:26

They judged the people at all times; they would bring the hard cases to Moses, but they would judge every minor case themselves.

Exodus 21:12-14

“Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.

Exodus 21:20

“When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod, and the slave dies under his abuse, the owner must be punished.

“When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.

Exodus 21:28

“When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its meat may not be eaten, but the ox’s owner is innocent.

Exodus 22:2

If a thief is caught in the act of breaking in, and he is beaten to death, no one is guilty of bloodshed.

Numbers 35:11

designate cities to serve as cities of refuge for you, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.

Numbers 35:16

“If anyone strikes a person with an iron object and death results, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.

Numbers 35:19-34

The avenger of blood himself is to kill the murderer; when he finds him, he is to kill him.

Deuteronomy 1:17

Do not show partiality when deciding a case; listen to small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.

Deuteronomy 19:4

“Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him:

Deuteronomy 19:10-11

In this way, innocent blood will not be shed, and you will not become guilty of bloodshed in the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 19:17

the two people in the dispute must stand in the presence of the Lord before the priests and judges in authority at that time.

1 Kings 3:16-28

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

2 Chronicles 19:8-10

Jehoshaphat also appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites and priests and some of the heads of the Israelite families for deciding the Lord’s will and for settling disputes of the residents of Jerusalem.

Psalm 122:4-5

where the tribes, Yahweh’s tribes, go up
to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.
(This is an ordinance for Israel.)

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.

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Summary

Deuteronomy 17:8

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

Arise

Get thee up

Deuteronomy 12:5

Deuteronomy 19:17

Psalm 122:4

General references

Numbers 27:2

Deuteronomy 25:1

John 7:51

Bible References

Arise

They judged the people at all times; they would bring the hard cases to Moses, but they would judge every minor case themselves.

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

“This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Ask the priests for a ruling.

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.

Get thee up

Instead, you must turn to the place Yahweh your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling and go there.

the two people in the dispute must stand in the presence of the Lord before the priests and judges in authority at that time.

where the tribes, Yahweh’s tribes, go up
to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.
(This is an ordinance for Israel.)

General references

They stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and the entire community at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,

“If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court, and the judges will hear their case. They will clear the innocent and condemn the guilty.

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”