Add parallel Print Page Options

For there the thrones for judgment were set up,
    the thrones of the house of David.(A)

Read full chapter

Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges

“If a judicial decision is too difficult for you to make between one kind of bloodshed and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another—any such matters of dispute in your towns—then you shall immediately go up to the place that the Lord your God will choose,(A)

Read full chapter

Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel to give judgment for the Lord and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.(A)

Read full chapter

22 Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.(A)

Read full chapter

18 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over[a] the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were priests.(A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 8.18 Syr Tg Vg: Heb lacks was over

18 When he has taken the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.(A)

Read full chapter