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…

He pronounces a similar punishment on those who stubbornly reject the judgment of the priests. We have already seen that the prophetic office was u…

Ver. 12 And the man that will do presumptuously
The judge of the country court that makes his application to that at…

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…