You shall not have respect to persons in judgment, you shall judge small and great equally; you shall not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgment is God's; and whatsoever matter shall be too hard for you, you shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.

And they judged the people at all times; and every matter too burdensome they brought to Moses, but every light matter they judged themselves.

Then there appeared two harlots before the king, and they stood before him.

And it came to pass on the third day after I was delivered, this woman also was delivered. And we [were] together; and there was no one with us besides our two selves in the house.

And she arose in the middle of the night, and took my son from my arms, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.

And the other woman said, No, but the living [one is] my son, and the dead [one is] your son. So they spoke before the king.

And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

And the woman whose the living child was, answered and said to the king, (for her heart yearned over her son), I beseech you, [my] lord, give her the child, and by no means slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide [it].

And all Israel heard this judgment which the king judged, and they feared before the king; because they saw that the wisdom of God [was] in him, to execute judgment.

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.

Whatsoever man of your brethren that dwell in their cities [shall bring] the cause that comes before you, between blood [and] blood, and between precept and commandment, and ordinances and judgments, you shall even decide for them; so they shall not sin against the Lord, and there shall not be wrath upon you, and upon your brethren. Thus you shall do, and you shall not sin.

[ 2:12] Thus says the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priest [concerning] the law, saying,

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.

And this shall be the ordinance of the manslayer who shall flee there, and shall live, whosoever has killed his neighbor ignorantly, seeing that he did not hate him in times past.

So innocent blood shall not be spilled in the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and there shall not be in you one guilty of blood.

But if there should be in you a man hating his neighbor, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,

And if any man strike another and he dies, let him be certainly put to death.

And if anyone lie in wait for his neighbor to slay him by craft, and he go for refuge, you shall take him from My altar to put him to death.

And if the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no blood shed for him.

And you shall appoint to yourselves cities: they shall be to you cities of refuge for the manslayer to flee to, everyone who has killed another unintentionally.

And if he should strike him with an iron instrument, and the man should die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.

The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: whenever he shall meet him, he shall put him to death.

or if he has stricken him with his hand through anger, and the man should die, let the man that struck him be put to death by all means, he is a murderer: let the murderer by all means be put to death; the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meets him.

or [strike him] with any stone, whereby a man may die, unawares, and it should fall upon him, and he should die, but he was not his enemy, nor sought to hurt him;

And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he fled for refuge; and he shall dwell there till the death of the high priest, whom they anointed with the holy oil.

and the avenger of blood should find him outside the bounds of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood should kill the manslayer, he is not guilty.

And these things shall be to you for an ordinance of judgment throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

And you shall not accept ransoms for life from a murderer who is worthy of death, for he shall be surely put to death.

So shall you not pollute with murder the land in which you dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it.

But in the place which the Lord your God shall choose in one of your cities to name His name there, and to be called upon, you shall even seek [Him] out and go there.

then shall the two men between whom the controversy is, stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days.

For from there the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.

For there are set thrones for judgment, [even] thrones for the house of David.