And if a matter shall be too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;

And when he shall be established in his government, then shall he write for himself this repetition of the law into a book by the hands of the priests the Levites;

Moreover Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the priests and Levites, and heads of houses of Israel, for the judgment of the Lord, and to judge the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

and Benaiah son of Jehoida [was] counselor, and the Cherethite and the Pelethite and the sons of David were princes of the court.

And he made Abijah the son of Maachah chief, [even] a leader among his brethren, for he intended to make him king.