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Judging Cases

(A)If any case is too difficult for you to judge, 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 gates, then you shall arise and go up to (B)the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 17:8 Lit blood to blood
  2. Deuteronomy 17:8 Lit judgment to judgment
  3. Deuteronomy 17:8 Lit stroke to stroke

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 Yahweh and to judge [a]disputes. So they returned to Jerusalem.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 19:8 As in M.T.; or And they lived in Jerusalem; LXX and Vg. disputes and they returned to Jerusalem

29 So I will set up his (A)seed to endure forever
And his (B)throne (C)as the days of heaven.

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