⁸ “^(A)If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between ^[a]one kind of homicide or another, between ^[b]one kind of lawsuit or another, and between ^[c]one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your ^[d]courts, then you shall arise and go up to ^(B)the place which the Lord your God chooses. ⁹ So you shall come to ^(C)the Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them and they will declare to you the verdict in the case.

¹⁷ then both the men who have the dispute shall stand ^(A)before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days.

⁵ Then ^(A)the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for the Lord your God has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the name of the Lord; and every dispute and every ^[a]assault ^[b]shall be settled by them.

⁴ Of these, 24,000 were ^(A)to oversee the work of the house of the Lord; and 6,000 were ^(B)officers and judges,

⁸ In Jerusalem also Jehoshaphat appointed some ^(A)of the Levites and priests, and some of the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judgment of the Lord and to judge ^[a]disputes among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ⁹ Then he charged them saying, “Thus you shall do in the fear of the Lord, faithfully and wholeheartedly. ^10 (B)Whenever any dispute comes to you from your brethren who live in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them so that they may not be guilty before the Lord, and ^(C)wrath may not come on you and your brethren. Thus you shall do and you will not be guilty.