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then his master shall bring him to the judges. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.
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“If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman’s husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
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If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbor’s goods.
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“For any kind of trespass, whether it concerns an ox, a donkey, a sheep, or clothing, or for any kind of lost thing which another claims to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whomever the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.
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So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal of Peor.”
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“Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him.
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Justice Must Be Administered
“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
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then both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days.
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And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother,
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then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance from the slain man to the surrounding cities.
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Laws of Social Responsibility
“If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,
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For their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.
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Then all Israel, with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the stranger as well as he who was born among them. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
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And Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers, and said to them: “I am old, advanced in age.
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The Covenant at Shechem
Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
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Nevertheless, the Lord raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
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Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do so.
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And when the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them.
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“Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, Who sit in judges’ attire, And who walk along the road.
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Elimelech’s Family Goes to Moab
Now it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to dwell in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
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Samuel Judges Israel
So it was that the ark remained in Kirjath Jearim a long time; it was there twenty years. And all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.
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Israel Demands a King
Now it came to pass when Samuel was old that he made his sons judges over Israel.
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The name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba.
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since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. Also the Lord tells you that He will make you a house.
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God Judges Ahaziah
Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
