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Deuteronomy 17:8
English Standard Version Anglicised
Deuteronomy 17:8
English Standard Version Anglicised
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 17:8
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Deuteronomy 17:8
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Law Courts
8 If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge(A)—whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults(B)—take them to the place the Lord your God will choose.(C)
Deuteronomy 17:8
King James Version
Deuteronomy 17:8
King James Version
8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose;
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2 Samuel 15:2
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2 Samuel 15:2
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2 And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside (A)the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgement, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And when he said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel”,
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2 Samuel 15:2
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2 Samuel 15:2
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2 He would get up early and stand by the side of the road leading to the city gate.(A) Whenever anyone came with a complaint to be placed before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out to him, “What town are you from?” He would answer, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”
2 Samuel 15:2
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2 Samuel 15:2
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2 And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
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1 Kings 3:16
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1 Kings 3:16
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1 Kings 3:16
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1 Kings 3:16
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A Wise Ruling
16 Now two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
1 Kings 3:16
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1 Kings 3:16
King James Version
16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
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1 Kings 7:7
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1 Kings 7:7
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7 And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgement, even the Hall of Judgement. (A)It was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.[a]
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- 1 Kings 7:7 Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew floor
1 Kings 7:7
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1 Kings 7:7
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7 He built the throne hall, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge,(A) and he covered it with cedar from floor to ceiling.[a](B)
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- 1 Kings 7:7 Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew floor
1 Kings 7:7
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1 Kings 7:7
King James Version
7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
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2 Chronicles 19:8
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2 Chronicles 19:8
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8 Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat (A)appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, (B)to give judgement for the Lord and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 19:8
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2 Chronicles 19:8
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8 In Jerusalem also, Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites,(A) priests(B) and heads of Israelite families to administer(C) the law of the Lord and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 19:8
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2 Chronicles 19:8
King James Version
8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the Lord, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.
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