Bible Cross References
Levites
2 Chronicles 17:8
And with them he sent Levites: Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.
Deuteronomy 17:8-13
8
If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between blood and blood, between dispute and dispute, or between stroke and stroke, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which Jehovah your God chooses.
9
And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is there in those days, and inquire; and they shall declare to you the judgment of the case.
10
You shall do according to the mouth of the word which they declare to you in that place which Jehovah chooses. And you shall take heed to do according to all that they instruct you.
11
According to the mouth of the law which they instruct you, according to the judgment which they command you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left from the word which they declare to you.
12
And the man who acts presumptuously to not heed the priest who is standing to serve there before Jehovah your God, or the judge, that man shall die. Thus you shall put away the evil from Israel.
13
And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act presumptuously.
1 Chronicles 23:4
Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Jehovah, six thousand officers and judges,
1 Chronicles 26:29
Of the Izharites: Chenaniah and his sons were over the external business over Israel of the officials and judges.
the judgment
Exodus 18:19-26
19
Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God be with you: Be before God for the people, so that you may bring the matters to God.
20
And you shall teach them the statutes and the Laws, and show them the way in which they should walk and the work they should do.
21
Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, who fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place these over them as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
22
And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they themselves shall judge. So it will be easier for you, and they shall bear the burden with you.
23
If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will also go to their place in peace.
24
So Moses heeded the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.
25
And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people: rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
26
And they judged the people at all times; the hard matters they brought to Moses, but they judged every small matter themselves.
Deuteronomy 21:5
And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near (for Jehovah your God has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the name of Jehovah), and by their word every controversy and every stroke shall be tried.
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,