⁸ With them he sent the Levites Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, and Tobijah, together with Elishama and Jehoram the priests.^{(A) 9} They taught in Judah, having with them the book of the law of the Lord; they traveled through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.^(B)

Judges. ^8 (A)If there is a case for judgment which proves too baffling for you to decide, in a matter of bloodshed or of law or of injury, matters of dispute within your gates, you shall then go up to the place which the Lord, your God, will choose, ⁹ to the levitical priests or to the judge who is in office at that time. They shall investigate the case and then announce to you the decision.^{(B) 10} You shall act according to the decision they announce to you in the place which the Lord will choose, carefully observing everything as they instruct you. ¹¹ You shall carry out the instruction they give you and the judgment they pronounce, without turning aside either to the right or left from the decision they announce to you. ¹² Anyone who acts presumptuously and does not obey the priest^[a] who officiates there in the ministry of the Lord, your God, or the judge, shall die. Thus shall you purge the evil from Israel. ¹³ And all the people, on hearing of it, shall fear, and will never again act presumptuously.^(C)