Deuteronomy 17:8
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Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges
8 “If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to (A)the place that the Lord your God will choose.
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Deuteronomy 12:5
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5 But you shall seek (A)the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation[a] there. There you shall go,
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- Deuteronomy 12:5 Or name as its habitation
Haggai 2:11
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11 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)Ask the priests about the law:
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Deuteronomy 1:17
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17 (A)You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for (B)the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall (C)bring to me, and I will hear it.’
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Malachi 2:7
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7 For (A)the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people[a] should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
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- Malachi 2:7 Hebrew they
Psalm 122:4-5
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4 to which the tribes (A)go up,
the tribes of the Lord,
as was (B)decreed for[a] Israel,
to give thanks to the name of the Lord.
5 There (C)thrones for judgment were set,
the thrones of the house of David.
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- Psalm 122:4 Or as a testimony for
2 Chronicles 19:8-10
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8 Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat (A)appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, (B)to give judgment for the Lord and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem. 9 And he charged them: (C)“Thus you shall do in the fear of the Lord, in faithfulness, (D)and with your whole heart: 10 (E)whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the Lord and (F)wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.
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1 Kings 3:16-28
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Solomon's Wisdom
16 Then two prostitutes came to the king (A)and stood before him. 17 The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house. 18 Then on the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. And we were alone. There was no one else with us in the house; only we two were in the house. 19 And this woman's son died in the night, because she lay on him. 20 And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast. 21 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead. But when I looked at him closely in the morning, behold, he was not the child that I had borne.” 22 But the other woman said, “No, the living child is mine, and the dead child is yours.” The first said, “No, the dead child is yours, and the living child is mine.” Thus they spoke before the king.
23 Then the king said, “The one says, ‘This is my son that is alive, and your son is dead’; and the other says, ‘No; but your son is dead, and my son is the living one.’” 24 And the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So a sword was brought before the king. 25 And the king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.” 26 Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because (B)her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.” 27 Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.” 28 And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that (C)the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
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Deuteronomy 19:17
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17 then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the Lord, (A)before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.
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Deuteronomy 19:4
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4 “This is the provision for (A)the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past—
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Numbers 35:19-34
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19 (A)The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death. 20 And if he pushed him out of hatred or hurled something at him, (B)lying in wait, so that he died, 21 or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death. He is a murderer. (C)The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
22 “But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or hurled anything on him (D)without lying in wait 23 or used a stone that could cause death, and without seeing him dropped it on him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy and did not seek his harm, 24 then (E)the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and (F)the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules. 25 And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it (G)until the death of the high priest (H)who was anointed with the holy oil. 26 But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the boundaries of his city of refuge to which he fled, 27 and (I)the avenger of blood finds him outside the boundaries of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood. 28 For he must remain in his city of refuge (J)until the death of the high priest, but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession. 29 And these things shall be for (K)a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
30 “If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the (L)evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. 31 Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death. 32 And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. 33 You shall not (M)pollute the land in which you live, for blood (N)pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except (O)by the blood of the one who shed it. 34 (P)You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, (Q)for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”
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Numbers 35:16
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16 (A)“But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.
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Numbers 35:11
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11 (A)then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there.
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Exodus 22:2
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2 [a] If a thief is found (A)breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him,
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- Exodus 22:2 Ch 22:1 in Hebrew
Exodus 21:28
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28 “When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the (A)ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.
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Exodus 21:22
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22 “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and (A)he shall pay as the (B)judges determine.
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Exodus 21:20
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20 “When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.
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Exodus 21:12-14
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12 (A)“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. 13 (B)But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then (C)I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. 14 But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, (D)you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
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Exodus 18:26
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26 And (A)they judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.
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Deuteronomy 19:10-11
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10 lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.
11 “But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him (A)and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,
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