Judges

Deuteronomy 1:15-17 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands...

Deuteronomy 17:9,12 And you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire...

Deuteronomy 19:17,18 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges...

Deuteronomy 21:2 Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him that is slain:

Exodus 18:25,26 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds...

Exodus 21:6 Then his master shall bring him to the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or to the door post...

1 Chronicles 23:4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:

1 Chronicles 26:29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

2 Chronicles 19:5-11 And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city...

Psalm 82:2,3 How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah...

Romans 13:1-6 Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God...

in all thy gates This expression may refer to the gate of the city, as the {forum} or place of public concourse among the Israelites, where a {court of judicature} was held, to try all causes and decide all affairs. The same practice obtained among other Eastern nation. The Ottoman court, it is well known, derived its appellation of the {Porte}, from the distribution of justice and the dispatch of public business at its gates. And the square tower which forms the principal entrance to the {Alhamra}, or red palace of the Moorish kings of Grenada, retains to this day the appellation of the {Gate of Judgment}, from it having been the place where justice was at one period summarily administered.