Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges

Deuteronomy 17

⁸ _k "If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the _l place which the LORD your God chooses. ⁹ "And _m you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and _n to the judge there in those days, and inquire of them; _o they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment. ¹⁰ "You shall do according to the sentence which they pronounce upon you in that place which the LORD chooses. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they order you. ¹¹ "According to the sentence of the law in which they instruct you, according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left from the sentence which they pronounce upon you. ¹² "Now _p the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel. ¹³ _q "And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act presumptuously.

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 1:17
   'You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man's presence, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.'
   2 Chronicles 19:10
   Whatever case comes to you from your brethren who dwell in their cities, whether of bloodshed or offenses against law or commandment, against statutes or ordinances, you shall warn them, lest they trespass against the LORD and wrath come upon you and your brethren. Do this, and you will not be guilty.
   
2. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 12:5
   But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go.
   Deuteronomy 16:2
   Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, from the flock and the herd, in the place where the LORD chooses to put His name.
   
3. Cross References
   Jeremiah 18:18
   Then they said, "Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
   
4. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 19:17 - 19
   Then both men in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days.
   
5. Cross References
   Ezekiel 44:24
   In controversy they shall stand as judges, and judge it according to My judgments. They shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed meetings, and they shall hallow My Sabbaths.
   
6. Cross References
   Numbers 15:30
   But the person who does anything presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one brings reproach on the LORD, and he shall be cut off from among his people.
   Deuteronomy 1:43
   So I spoke to you; yet you would not listen, but rebelled against the command of the LORD, and presumptuously went up into the mountain.
   
7. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 13:11
   So all Israel shall hear and fear, and not again do such wickedness as this among you.