The cases in question were those that the lower judges felt unable to decide satisfactorily, and so they referred them to their superiors .

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Deuteronomy 17:8–20. THE SUPREMACY IN ISRAEL OF THE WRITTEN LAW OF GOD.

If there arise a matter too…

And you shall do according to the sentence which they of that
place which the Lord shall choose shall sh…

Courts of judgment were to be set up in every city. Though their judgment did not have the Divine authority of an oracle, it was the judgment of wi…