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…

You shall come to the priests, the Levites
The priests that are of the tribe of Levi, as the Targum of Jonathan, and…

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…