Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to outside duties for Israel, as officers and judges.

Solomon summoned all Israel, the commanders of the thousands and of the hundreds, the judges, and all the leaders of all Israel, the heads of families.

He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

and said to the judges, “Consider what you are doing, for you judge not on behalf of humans but on the Lord’s behalf; he is with you in giving judgment.

(then Rehum the royal deputy, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the envoys, the officials, the Persians, the people of Erech, the Babylonians, the people of Susa, that is, the Elamites,

“And you, Ezra, according to the God-given wisdom you possess, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River who know the laws of your God, and you shall teach those who do not know them.

Let our officials represent the whole assembly, and let all in our towns who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every town, until the fierce wrath of our God on this account is averted from us.”

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the eyes of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?

He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges.

Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have been false to God above.

The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

He judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with equity.

People will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.”

If a king judges the poor with equity, his throne will be established forever.

And I will restore your judges as at the first and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.

But righteous judges shall declare them guilty of adultery and of bloodshed, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

In a dispute they shall act as judges, and they shall decide it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes regarding all my appointed festivals, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.

The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.