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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And all the people. He shows from the object of the enactment why the proud despisers (of the priests) were not to be spared; for punishme…

And all the people shall hear, and fear
All the people of Israel in their own cities, and particularly the judges in…

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…