David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand are to be in charge of the work of the temple of the Lord and six thousand are to be officials and judges.

From the Izharites: Kenaniah and his sons were assigned duties away from the temple, as officials and judges over Israel.

Then Solomon spoke to all Israel—to the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, to the judges and to all the leaders in Israel, the heads of families—

then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty and bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence.

Jehoshaphat Appoints Judges

Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the Lord, the God of their ancestors.

He appointed judges in the land, in each of the fortified cities of Judah.

Now let the fear of the Lord be on you. Judge carefully, for with the Lord our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery.”

Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

Rehum the commanding officer and Shimshai the secretary, together with the rest of their associates—the judges, officials and administrators over the people from Persia, Uruk and Babylon, the Elamites of Susa,

And you, Ezra, in accordance with the wisdom of your God, which you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to administer justice to all the people of Trans-Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach any who do not know them.

Let our officials act for the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at a set time, along with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”

Though I were innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my Judge for mercy.

When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. If it is not he, then who is it?

He leads rulers away stripped and makes fools of judges.

“Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?

Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness?

There the upright can establish their innocence before him, and there I would be delivered forever from my judge.

For that would have been wicked, a sin to be judged.

then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.

Let the Lord judge the peoples. Vindicate me, Lord, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity, O Most High.

God is a righteous judge, a God who displays his wrath every day.

For you have upheld my right and my cause, sitting enthroned as the righteous judge.

He rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity.

Arise, Lord, do not let mortals triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence.

He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that he may judge his people: