Gen 18:25 – Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
Gen 16:5 – And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
Gen 31:53 – The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,
Ex 15:25 – And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,
Ex 21:1 – "Now these are the rules that you shall set before them.
Ex 24:3 – Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do."
Ex 26:30 – Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain.
Lev 18:4 – You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:5 – You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.
Lev 18:26 – But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you
Lev 19:37 – And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the LORD."
Lev 20:22 – "You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
Lev 24:22 – You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the LORD your God."
Lev 25:18 – "Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.
Lev 26:15 – if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
Lev 26:43 – But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.
Lev 26:46 – These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between him and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.
Num 15:16 – One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."
Num 27:21 – And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation."
Num 36:13 – These are the commandments and the rules that the LORD commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Deut 1:17 – You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'
Deut 4:5 – See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deut 4:14 – And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.
Deut 4:45 – These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
Deut 5:31 – But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.'
Deut 6:1 – "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,
Deut 6:20 – "When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?'
Deut 7:11 – You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
Deut 8:11 – "Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,
Deut 10:18 – He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Deut 11:1 – "You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.
Deut 11:32 – you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
Deut 12:1 – "These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
Deut 26:16 – "This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deut 26:17 – You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.
Deut 30:16 – If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deut 32:41 – if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
Deut 33:10 – They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
Deut 33:21 – He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a commander's portion was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people, with Israel he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments for Israel."
Judg 2:16 – Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
Judg 2:18 – Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
Judg 2:16 – Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
Judg 2:18 – Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
2 Sam 22:23 – For all his rules were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.
1 Kgs 2:3 – and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,
1 Kgs 6:12 – "Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
1 Kgs 8:32 – then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
1 Kgs 8:45 – then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
1 Kgs 8:49 – then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause
1 Kgs 8:58 – that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.
1 Kgs 8:59 – Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,
1 Kgs 9:4 – And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,
1 Kgs 10:9 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
1 Kgs 11:33 – because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.
2 Kgs 17:26 – So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."
2 Kgs 17:27 – Then the king of Assyria commanded, "Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him go and dwell there and teach them the law of the god of the land."
2 Kgs 17:37 – And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,
1 Chr 15:13 – Because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule."
1 Chr 16:12 – Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered,
1 Chr 16:14 – He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
1 Chr 16:33 – Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth.
1 Chr 22:13 – Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.
1 Chr 28:7 – I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'
2 Chr 6:23 – then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
2 Chr 6:35 – then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
2 Chr 6:39 – then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
2 Chr 7:17 – And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,
2 Chr 9:8 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
2 Chr 19:6 – and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.
2 Chr 20:12 – O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."
2 Chr 33:8 – and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses."
Ezra 7:10 – For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
Neh 1:7 – We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.
Neh 9:13 – You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
Neh 9:29 – And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.
Neh 10:29 – join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.
Job 9:19 – If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
Job 9:24 – The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges–if it is not he, who then is it?
Job 12:17 – He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
Job 14:3 – And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
Job 21:22 – Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?
Job 22:4 – Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?
Job 36:6 – He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
Job 34:23 – For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
Job 37:23 – The Almighty–we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
Job 40:8 – Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
Ps 7:6 – Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
Ps 7:8 – The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
Ps 7:11 – God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
Ps 9:4 – For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
Ps 9:7 – But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,
Ps 9:8 – and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.
Ps 9:16 – The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah
Ps 9:19 – Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!
Ps 10:5 – His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
Ps 18:22 – For all his rules were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.
Ps 19:9 – the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
Ps 25:9 – He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
Ps 33:5 – He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
Ps 35:23 – Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord!
Ps 36:6 – Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
Ps 37:28 – For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 37:33 – The LORD will not abandon him to his power or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.
Ps 48:11 – Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments!
Ps 50:6 – The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah
Ps 51:4 – Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
Ps 58:11 – Mankind will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth."
Ps 67:4 – Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah
Ps 72:1 – Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!
Ps 75:2 – "At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity.
Ps 75:7 – but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.
Ps 81:4 – For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.
Ps 82:1 – God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Ps 89:30 – If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules,
Ps 94:2 – Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!
Ps 96:13 – before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
Ps 98:9 – before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
Ps 99:4 – The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Ps 97:8 – Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of your judgments, O LORD.
Ps 105:5 – Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,
Ps 105:7 – He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
Ps 119:7 – I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.
Ps 119:13 – With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
Ps 119:20 – My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.
Ps 119:30 – I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.
Ps 119:39 – Turn away the reproach that I dread, for your rules are good.
Ps 119:43 – And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.
Ps 119:52 – When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O LORD.
Ps 119:62 – At midnight I rise to praise you, because of your righteous rules.
Ps 119:84 – How long must your servant endure? When will you judge those who persecute me?
Ps 119:91 – By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants.
Ps 119:102 – I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me.
Ps 119:106 – I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to keep your righteous rules.
Ps 119:120 – My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.Ayin
Ps 119:149 – Hear my voice according to your steadfast love; O LORD, according to your justice give me life.
Ps 119:156 – Great is your mercy, O LORD; give me life according to your rules.
Ps 119:160 – The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.Sin and Shin
Ps 119:164 – Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules.
Ps 119:175 – Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me.
Ps 122:5 – There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
Ps 140:12 – I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.
Ps 143:2 – Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
Ps 146:7 – who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry.The LORD sets the prisoners free;
Ps 147:19 – He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel.
Ps 147:20 – He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!
Ps 149:9 – to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the LORD!
Prov 8:16 – by me princes rule, and nobles, all who govern justly.
Prov 16:11 – A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Prov 16:33 – The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
Prov 29:26 – Many seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the LORD that a man gets justice.
Isa 1:26 – And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."
Isa 3:2 – the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,
Eccl 3:17 – I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.
Isa 11:4 – but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
Eccl 11:9 – Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Isa 3:14 – The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Isa 26:8 – In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.
Isa 26:9 – My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa 28:6 – and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Isa 28:17 – And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
Isa 28:26 – For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.
Isa 30:18 – Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
Isa 33:5 – The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,
Isa 34:5 – For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
Isa 40:14 – Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
Isa 40:23 – who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
Isa 43:26 – Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
Isa 49:4 – But I said, "I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God."
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Isa 51:5 – My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.
Isa 54:17 – no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD."
Isa 58:2 – Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Isa 61:8 – For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Jer 1:16 – And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
Jer 2:35 – you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.'
Jer 4:12 – a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them."
Jer 5:4 – Then I said, "These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
Jer 5:5 – I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
Jer 8:7 – Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the LORD.
Jer 9:24 – but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."
Jer 10:24 – Correct me, O LORD, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
Jer 22:3 – Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Jer 25:31 – The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.'
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Jer 48:21 – "Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath,
Jer 48:47 – Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.
Lam 3:59 – You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause.
Ezek 5:6 – And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
Ezek 5:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
Ezek 5:8 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 7:3 – Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 7:27 – The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 11:10 – You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Ezek 16:38 – And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezek 17:20 – I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me.
Ezek 18:9 – walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully–he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 18:30 – "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
Ezek 20:13 – But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
Ezek 20:16 – because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Ezek 20:19 – I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules,
Ezek 20:21 – But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezek 20:35 – And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
Ezek 20:36 – As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 21:27 – A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.
Ezek 21:30 – Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
Ezek 23:24 – And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Ezek 33:20 – Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways."
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Ezek 34:17 – "As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats.
Ezek 34:20 – "Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
Ezek 34:22 – I will rescue my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.
Ezek 35:11 – therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them, when I judge you.
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Ezek 36:27 – And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Ezek 37:24 – "My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
Ezek 38:22 – With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Ezek 44:24 – In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
Dan 9:5 – we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
Dan 9:12 – He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Hos 6:5 – Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.
Joel 3:12 – Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Amos 2:3 – I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its princes with him," says the LORD.
Amos 5:15 – Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Obad 1:21 – Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Mic 7:9 – I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.
Hab 1:12 – Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
Zeph 2:3 – Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.
Zeph 3:5 – The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Zeph 3:15 – The LORD has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil.
Mal 2:17 – You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say, "How have we wearied him?" By saying, "Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them." Or by asking, "Where is the God of justice?"
Mal 3:5 – "Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
Mal 4:4 – "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
Men
Job
Job 13:18 – Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
Job 23:4 – I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 27:2 – "As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
Job 29:14 – I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
Job 34:5 – For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
Job 34:6 – in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'
Job 35:2 – "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'
Chaldeans/Babylon
2 Kgs 25:6 – Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.
Jer 39:5 – But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at Riblah, in the land of Hamath; and he passed sentence on him.
Jer 52:9 – Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.
Ezek 23:24 – And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Hab 1:7 – They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
Hab 1:12 – Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
Unnamed gentile nations
1 Kgs 18:28 – And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.
2 Kgs 17:33 – So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
Ezek 20:25 – Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life,
Former manners
Gen 40:13 – In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer.
2 Kgs 17:34 – To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
2 Kgs 17:40 – However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.
David
1 Sam 30:25 – And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to this day.
2 Chr 8:14 – According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God had commanded.
Jeremiah
Jer 12:1 – Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
The righteous
Ps 37:6 – He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
The poor
Isa 10:2 – to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
The king
1 Sam 8:9 – Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them."
Manservant/maidservant
Job 31:13 – "If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me,
Who is judged?
Nations
Isralites
Ex 2:14 – He answered, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known."
Ex 28:29 – So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment on his heart, when he goes into the Holy Place, to bring them to regular remembrance before the LORD.
Ex 28:30 – And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the LORD. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the LORD regularly.
Lev 19:15 – "You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Lev 19:35 – "You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
Lev 26:43 – But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.
Num 25:5 – And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor."
Num 27:21 – And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation."
Num 35:12 – The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Deut 1:17 – You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'
Deut 4:1 – "And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deut 6:20 – "When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?'
Deut 16:18 – "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deut 17:8 – "If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.
Deut 17:12 – The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
Josh 8:33 – And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.
Josh 23:2 – Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, "I am now old and well advanced in years.
Josh 24:1 – Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
Judg 2:16 – Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
Judg 2:18 – Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
Judg 2:19 – But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
Judg 3:10 – The Spirit of the LORD was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the LORD gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
Judg 4:4 – Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
Judg 10:2 – And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried at Shamir.
Judg 10:3 – After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
Judg 11:27 – I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon."
Judg 12:7 – Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.
Judg 12:8 – After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Judg 12:9 – He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
Judg 12:11 – After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years.
Judg 12:13 – After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
Judg 12:14 – He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.
Judg 15:20 – And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Judg 16:31 – Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.
Ruth 1:1 – In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
1 Sam 4:18 – As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
1 Sam 7:15 – Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
1 Sam 7:16 – And he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah. And he judged Israel in all these places.
1 Sam 7:17 – Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he built there an altar to the LORD.
1 Sam 8:9 – Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them."
1 Sam 8:11 – He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.
1 Sam 10:25 – Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the LORD. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.
1 Sam 12:7 – Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous deeds of the LORD that he performed for you and for your fathers.
1 Sam 30:25 – And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to this day.
2 Sam 7:11 – from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house.
1 Kgs 3:9 – Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?"
1 Kgs 8:45 – then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
1 Kgs 8:49 – then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause
1 Kgs 8:59 – Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,
2 Kgs 15:5 – And the LORD touched the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the household, governing the people of the land.
2 Kgs 25:6 – Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.
2 Kgs 23:22 – For no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah.
1 Chr 15:13 – Because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule."
1 Chr 16:12 – Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered,
1 Chr 17:6 – In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"'
1 Chr 17:10 – from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house.
1 Chr 23:4 – "Twenty-four thousand of these," David said, "shall have charge of the work in the house of the LORD, 6,000 shall be officers and judges,
1 Chr 26:29 – Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to external duties for Israel, as officers and judges.
2 Chr 1:2 – Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses.
2 Chr 1:10 – Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?"
2 Chr 1:11 – God answered Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king,
2 Chr 6:35 – then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
2 Chr 6:39 – then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
2 Chr 19:6 – and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.
2 Chr 19:8 – Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the LORD and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.
2 Chr 19:10 – whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.
2 Chr 26:21 – And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the LORD. And Jotham his son was over the king's household, governing the people of the land.
Ezra 7:10 – For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
Ezra 10:14 – Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us."
Neh 9:29 – And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.
Ps 37:28 – For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 48:11 – Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments!
Ps 72:2 – May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!
Ps 81:4 – For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.
Ps 89:30 – If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules,
Ps 97:8 – Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of your judgments, O LORD.
Ps 99:4 – The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Ps 105:5 – Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,
Ps 122:5 – There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
Isa 1:21 – How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Isa 5:3 – And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
Isa 5:7 – For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Isa 33:5 – The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,
Isa 33:22 – For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us.
Isa 43:26 – Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Isa 58:2 – Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Isa 59:8 – The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.
Isa 59:11 – We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
Isa 61:8 – For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Jer 1:16 – And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
Jer 2:35 – you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.'
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jer 4:12 – a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them."
Jer 10:24 – Correct me, O LORD, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
Jer 21:12 – O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "'Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.'"
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Ezek 5:6 – And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
Ezek 5:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
Ezek 5:8 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 7:3 – Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 7:27 – The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 11:10 – You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Ezek 16:38 – And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezek 17:20 – I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me.
Ezek 20:13 – But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
Ezek 20:16 – because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Ezek 20:21 – But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezek 20:35 – And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
Ezek 20:36 – As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 21:27 – A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.
Ezek 23:24 – And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Ezek 23:36 – The LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Ezek 33:20 – Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways."
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Ezek 34:17 – "As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats.
Ezek 34:20 – "Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
Ezek 34:22 – I will rescue my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Ezek 37:24 – "My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
Dan 9:5 – we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
Dan 9:12 – He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Hos 5:11 – Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.
Hos 6:5 – Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.
Hos 10:4 – They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
Amos 5:15 – Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Obad 1:21 – Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
Mic 3:1 – And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?–
Mic 3:8 – But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
Zeph 3:5 – The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.
Mal 3:5 – "Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
Gentile nations
Moab
2 Chr 20:12 – O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."
Jer 48:21 – "Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath,
Jer 48:47 – Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.
Amos 2:3 – I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its princes with him," says the LORD.
Edom
Isa 34:5 – For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
Jer 49:12 – For thus says the LORD: "If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.
Ezek 35:11 – therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them, when I judge you.
Obad 1:21 – Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
Ammon
Judg 11:27 – I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon."
2 Chr 20:12 – O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."
Ezek 21:30 – Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
Babylon
Jer 51:9 – We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.
Assyria
2 Kgs 17:26 – So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."
Meunites
2 Chr 20:12 – O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."
Gog
Ezek 38:22 – With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
Unnamed
Ps 9:19 – Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!
Ps 149:9 – to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the LORD!
Individuals
Job
Job 9:15 – Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
Job 9:32 – For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
Job 14:3 – And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
Job 19:7 – Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.
Job 22:4 – Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?
Job 23:7 – There an upright man could argue with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.
House of Ahab
2 Chr 22:8 – And when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them.
David
1 Sam 24:12 – May the LORD judge between me and you, may the LORD avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.
2 Sam 18:19 – Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run and carry news to the king that the LORD has delivered him from the hand of his enemies."
2 Sam 18:31 – And behold, the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, "Good news for my lord the king! For the LORD has delivered you this day from the hand of all who rose up against you."
Ps 9:4 – For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
Ps 26:1 – Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Ps 51:4 – Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
Sarai
Gen 16:5 – And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
Jacob
Gen 31:53 – The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,
House of Eli
1 Sam 3:13 – And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.
All peoples/all earth/all nations
Gen 18:25 – Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
1 Chr 16:14 – He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
1 Chr 16:33 – Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth.
Job 34:23 – For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
Ps 2:10 – Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
Ps 7:8 – The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
Ps 9:8 – and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.
Ps 36:6 – Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
Ps 67:4 – Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Ps 94:2 – Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!
Ps 96:13 – before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
Ps 98:9 – before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
Ps 105:7 – He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
Ps 148:11 – Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth!
Eccl 11:9 – Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Isa 11:4 – but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
Isa 26:9 – My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa 42:1 – Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isa 42:3 – a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.
Isa 42:4 – He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.
Isa 51:5 – My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.
Isa 66:16 – For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many.
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jer 11:20 – But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
Jer 25:31 – The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.'
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Joel 3:12 – Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Spiritual leaders
Princes and rulers
Job 12:17 – He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
Ps 2:10 – Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
Ps 82:3 – Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Ps 141:6 – When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.
Isa 1:23 – Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
Isa 3:2 – the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,
Isa 3:14 – The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Isa 40:23 – who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
Jer 5:28 – they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Dan 9:12 – He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.
Hos 13:10 – Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are all your rulers–those of whom you said, "Give me a king and princes"?
Amos 2:3 – I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its princes with him," says the LORD.
Mic 3:9 – Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,
Mic 3:9 – Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,
Kings
Ps 2:10 – Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
Ps 72:2 – May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!
Ezek 45:9 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.
Hos 13:10 – Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are all your rulers–those of whom you said, "Give me a king and princes"?
The wicked
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
Eccl 3:17 – I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.
1 Kgs 8:32 – then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
2 Chr 6:23 – then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
Ps 1:5 – Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
Ps 7:11 – God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
Ps 9:16 – The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah
Ps 10:5 – His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
Ps 37:28 – For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 109:7 – When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin!
Ps 119:84 – How long must your servant endure? When will you judge those who persecute me?
Isa 11:4 – but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
Jer 22:13 – "Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages,
The righteous
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
Eccl 3:17 – I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.
1 Kgs 8:32 – then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
2 Chr 6:23 – then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
Ps 7:8 – The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
Ps 35:24 – Vindicate me, O LORD, my God, according to your righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me!
Ps 37:33 – The LORD will not abandon him to his power or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.
Ps 43:1 – Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
Ps 58:11 – Mankind will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth."
Ps 112:5 – It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.
The oppressed
Deut 10:18 – He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Job 36:6 – He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
Ps 35:23 – Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord!
Ps 72:4 – May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
Ps 146:7 – who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry.The LORD sets the prisoners free;
Isa 1:17 – learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Lam 3:59 – You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause.
The poor
Ps 72:4 – May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
Ps 82:3 – Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Ps 109:31 – For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.
Prov 29:14 – If a king faithfully judges the poor, his throne will be established forever.
Prov 31:9 – Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Isa 11:4 – but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
Jer 5:28 – they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
The servants of God
1 Kgs 8:32 – then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
2 Chr 6:23 – then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
Isa 49:4 – But I said, "I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God."
Isa 53:8 – By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
Isa 54:17 – no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD."
The orphans
Ps 10:18 – to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
Ps 82:3 – Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Isa 1:17 – learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Isa 1:23 – Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
The enemies
Deut 32:41 – if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
Ps 7:6 – Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
The afflicted
Job 36:6 – He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
Ps 72:2 – May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!
Ps 140:12 – I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.
The humble
Ps 25:9 – He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
Isa 11:4 – but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
Zeph 2:3 – Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.
The manslayers
Num 35:12 – The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
Josh 20:6 – And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.'"
The elders
Isa 3:2 – the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,
Ezek 20:4 – Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Let them know the abominations of their fathers,
Those who are on high
Job 21:22 – Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?
Ps 82:1 – God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
The sinners
Ps 1:5 – Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
The prophets
Isa 3:2 – the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,
The fat sheep
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
The proud
Ps 94:2 – Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!
The neighbor
Lev 19:15 – "You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
The alien
Deut 1:16 – And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
The manslayer
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
The avenger of blood
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
All things
Ps 119:91 – By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants.
God
Isa 5:3 – And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
Attributes of God’s judgments/statutes
Injunctive
Ex 21:9 – If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.
Ex 23:6 – "You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.
Ex 24:3 – Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do."
Ex 26:30 – Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain.
Ex 28:15 – "You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work. In the style of the ephod you shall make it–of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen shall you make it.
Ex 28:29 – So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment on his heart, when he goes into the Holy Place, to bring them to regular remembrance before the LORD.
Ex 28:30 – And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the LORD. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the LORD regularly.
Lev 5:10 – Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the rule. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.
Lev 18:4 – You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:5 – You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.
Lev 18:26 – But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you
Lev 19:15 – "You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Lev 19:35 – "You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
Lev 19:37 – And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the LORD."
Lev 20:22 – "You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
Lev 24:22 – You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the LORD your God."
Lev 25:18 – "Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.
Num 9:3 – On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it."
Num 9:14 – And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native."
Num 15:16 – One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."
Num 15:24 – then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one male goat for a sin offering.
Num 27:11 – And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest kinsman of his clan, and he shall possess it. And it shall be for the people of Israel a statute and rule, as the LORD commanded Moses.'"
Num 27:21 – And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation."
Num 29:6 – besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its grain offering, and the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offering, according to the rule for them, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
Num 29:18 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:21 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:24 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:27 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:30 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:33 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:37 – and the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 35:12 – The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Num 35:29 – And these things shall be for a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
Deut 1:17 – You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'
Deut 4:1 – "And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deut 4:5 – See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deut 4:14 – And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.
Deut 5:1 – And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.
Deut 5:31 – But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.'
Deut 6:1 – "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,
Deut 6:20 – "When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?'
Deut 7:11 – You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
Deut 7:12 – "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
Deut 8:11 – "Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,
Deut 11:1 – "You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.
Deut 11:32 – you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
Deut 12:1 – "These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
Deut 16:19 – You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.
Deut 17:8 – "If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.
Deut 21:17 – but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
Deut 24:17 – "You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge,
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
Deut 26:16 – "This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deut 26:17 – You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.
Deut 27:19 – "'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Deut 27:19 – "'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Deut 27:19 – "'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Deut 30:16 – If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deut 33:10 – They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
Josh 20:6 – And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.'"
2 Sam 22:23 – For all his rules were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.
1 Kgs 2:3 – and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,
1 Kgs 6:12 – "Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
1 Kgs 8:58 – that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.
1 Kgs 9:4 – And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,
2 Kgs 17:37 – And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,
2 Chr 7:17 – And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,
2 Chr 19:6 – and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.
2 Chr 19:10 – whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.
Neh 10:29 – join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.
Ps 18:22 – For all his rules were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.
Ps 106:3 – Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Isa 56:1 – Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.
Jer 21:12 – O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "'Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.'"
Jer 22:3 – Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Ezek 11:20 – that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezek 18:9 – walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully–he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 20:18 – "And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezek 20:19 – I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules,
Ezek 20:21 – But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezek 36:27 – And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Ezek 45:9 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.
Hos 12:6 – "So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."
Mic 6:8 – He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Zech 7:9 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Zech 8:16 – These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
Punitive
Lev 26:43 – But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.
Deut 32:41 – if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
1 Sam 3:13 – And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.
2 Sam 18:19 – Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run and carry news to the king that the LORD has delivered him from the hand of his enemies."
2 Sam 18:31 – And behold, the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, "Good news for my lord the king! For the LORD has delivered you this day from the hand of all who rose up against you."
1 Chr 15:13 – Because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule."
2 Chr 19:10 – whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.
Ps 7:6 – Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
Ps 94:2 – Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!
Isa 11:4 – but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
Isa 28:6 – and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Isa 34:5 – For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
Isa 66:16 – For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many.
Jer 1:16 – And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
Jer 4:12 – a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them."
Jer 10:24 – Correct me, O LORD, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
Jer 11:20 – But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
Jer 21:12 – O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "'Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.'"
Jer 22:13 – "Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages,
Jer 25:31 – The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.'
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Jer 49:12 – For thus says the LORD: "If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.
Ezek 5:8 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 7:3 – Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 7:8 – Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 7:27 – The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 11:10 – You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 16:38 – And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezek 17:20 – I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me.
Ezek 20:13 – But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
Ezek 21:27 – A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.
Ezek 20:35 – And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
Ezek 20:36 – As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 21:30 – Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
Ezek 23:24 – And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Ezek 35:11 – therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them, when I judge you.
Ezek 38:22 – With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
Dan 9:12 – He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.
Hab 1:12 – Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Mal 3:5 – "Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
Promissory
General promises
Lev 18:5 – You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.
Deut 4:1 – "And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deut 7:12 – "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
1 Kgs 6:12 – "Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
1 Chr 22:13 – Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.
1 Chr 28:7 – I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'
2 Chr 33:8 – and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses."
Neh 9:29 – And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.
Ps 37:6 – He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
Ps 37:28 – For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 112:5 – It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.
Prov 2:9 – Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
Isa 54:17 – no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD."
Ezek 11:20 – that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezek 18:5 – "If a man is righteous and does what is just and right–
Ezek 18:9 – walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully–he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 18:19 – "Yet you say, 'Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?' When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.
Ezek 18:21 – "But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Ezek 18:27 – Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.
Ezek 20:11 – I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.
Ezek 20:13 – But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
Ezek 20:21 – But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezek 33:14 – Again, though I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right,
Ezek 33:16 – None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.
Ezek 33:19 – And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by them.
Promises of salvation
Fruits of salvation
Ps 122:5 – There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 16:5 – then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness."
Isa 26:9 – My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa 28:6 – and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Isa 28:17 – And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
Isa 32:1 – Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
Isa 32:16 – Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
Isa 33:5 – The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,
Isa 42:1 – Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isa 42:3 – a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.
Isa 42:4 – He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Isa 51:5 – My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.
Isa 53:8 – By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
Isa 56:1 – Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.
Isa 61:8 – For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jer 30:18 – "Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt on its mound, and the palace shall stand where it used to be.
Jer 48:47 – Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Ezek 36:27 – And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Ezek 37:24 – "My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Ezek 44:24 – In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Zeph 3:15 – The LORD has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil.
Timing of realization
1 Chr 16:33 – Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth.
Ps 9:7 – But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,
Ps 75:2 – "At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity.
Eccl 3:17 – I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 32:1 – Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
Isa 32:16 – Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
Isa 56:1 – Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.
Jer 23:5 – "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 33:15 – In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 48:47 – Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.
Ezek 7:3 – Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 21:27 – A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Zeph 2:3 – Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Universality of fulfillment
1 Chr 16:33 – Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth.
Ps 2:10 – Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
Ps 9:8 – and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.
Ps 67:4 – Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Ps 94:2 – Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!
Ps 96:13 – before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
Ps 98:9 – before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
Ps 148:11 – Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth!
Ps 122:5 – There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
Isa 26:9 – My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa 42:1 – Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isa 42:3 – a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.
Isa 42:4 – He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Isa 51:5 – My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.
Isa 66:16 – For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many.
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jer 23:5 – "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 30:18 – "Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt on its mound, and the palace shall stand where it used to be.
Jer 33:15 – In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 48:47 – Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Joel 3:12 – Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Zeph 3:15 – The LORD has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil.
Nobility of status
Ps 9:7 – But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,
Ps 122:5 – There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 16:5 – then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness."
Isa 32:1 – Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
Jer 23:5 – "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 33:15 – In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Ezek 37:24 – "My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
Zeph 3:15 – The LORD has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil.
Genealogy of divine ordinance
Ps 122:5 – There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 16:5 – then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness."
Jer 23:5 – "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 33:15 – In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Ezek 37:24 – "My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
Perfect
Righteous
Gen 18:25 – Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
Lev 19:15 – "You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Lev 19:35 – "You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
Deut 4:8 – And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Deut 16:18 – "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deut 32:4 – "The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Deut 33:21 – He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a commander's portion was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people, with Israel he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments for Israel."
Job 8:3 – Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
Job 37:23 – The Almighty–we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
Ps 9:4 – For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
Ps 19:9 – the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
Ps 36:6 – Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
Ps 89:14 – Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
Ps 97:2 – Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Ps 99:4 – The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Ps 119:7 – I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.
Ps 119:62 – At midnight I rise to praise you, because of your righteous rules.
Ps 119:75 – I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Ps 119:106 – I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to keep your righteous rules.
Ps 119:137 – Righteous are you, O LORD, and right are your rules.
Ps 119:160 – The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.Sin and Shin
Ps 119:164 – Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules.
Isa 5:16 – But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 26:9 – My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa 28:17 – And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
Isa 32:1 – Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
Isa 32:16 – Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
Isa 33:5 – The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,
Isa 58:2 – Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Jer 9:24 – but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."
Jer 12:1 – Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
Jer 22:3 – Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Mic 7:9 – I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.
Zeph 3:5 – The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.
Mal 2:17 – You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say, "How have we wearied him?" By saying, "Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them." Or by asking, "Where is the God of justice?"
Just
Lev 19:35 – "You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
Deut 32:4 – "The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Job 8:3 – Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
Job 34:12 – Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.
Job 37:23 – The Almighty–we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
Ps 25:9 – He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
Ps 89:14 – Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
Ps 97:2 – Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Ps 99:4 – The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Ps 101:1 – I will sing of steadfast love and justice; to you, O LORD, I will make music.
Ps 111:7 – The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy;
Prov 1:3 – to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
Prov 16:11 – A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Isa 5:16 – But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 28:6 – and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Isa 28:17 – And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
Isa 30:18 – Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
Isa 32:1 – Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
Isa 32:16 – Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
Isa 33:5 – The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,
Jer 9:24 – but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."
Jer 22:3 – Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Authoritative
Num 27:21 – And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation."
Deut 32:41 – if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
Job 9:19 – If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
Job 34:17 – Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
Job 40:8 – Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
Ps 9:7 – But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,
Ps 119:91 – By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants.
Ps 119:120 – My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.Ayin
Ps 122:5 – There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
Ps 143:2 – Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
Prov 16:33 – The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
Prov 29:26 – Many seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the LORD that a man gets justice.
Eccl 11:9 – Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Eccl 12:14 – For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 28:6 – and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Isa 32:1 – Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
Isa 50:8 – He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
Jer 49:12 – For thus says the LORD: "If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.
Ezek 21:27 – A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Loving
Deut 7:12 – "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
Deut 10:18 – He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
1 Kgs 10:9 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
2 Chr 9:8 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
Ps 33:5 – He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
Ps 89:14 – Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
Ps 119:149 – Hear my voice according to your steadfast love; O LORD, according to your justice give me life.
Ps 119:156 – Great is your mercy, O LORD; give me life according to your rules.
Ps 101:1 – I will sing of steadfast love and justice; to you, O LORD, I will make music.
Prov 1:3 – to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
Jer 9:24 – but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 30:18 – "Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt on its mound, and the palace shall stand where it used to be.
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Zech 7:9 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Upright
Deut 32:4 – "The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Neh 9:13 – You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
Ps 119:137 – Righteous are you, O LORD, and right are your rules.
Prov 2:9 – Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
Ezek 18:19 – "Yet you say, 'Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?' When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.
Ezek 18:21 – "But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Ezek 18:27 – Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.
Ezek 33:14 – Again, though I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right,
Ezek 33:16 – None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.
Ezek 33:19 – And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by them.
Omniscient
Job 34:23 – For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
Ps 10:5 – His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
Prov 16:33 – The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
Prov 29:26 – Many seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the LORD that a man gets justice.
Eccl 11:9 – Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Eccl 12:14 – For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Isa 3:14 – The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Isa 40:14 – Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
Isa 40:27 – Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?
Enduring
Num 35:29 – And these things shall be for a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
Ps 9:7 – But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,
Ps 19:9 – the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
Ps 119:91 – By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants.
Ps 119:160 – The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.Sin and Shin
Ps 122:5 – There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Isa 61:8 – For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Wrathful
2 Chr 19:10 – whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.
Ps 7:6 – Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
Isa 61:8 – For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Jer 21:12 – O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "'Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.'"
Ezek 16:38 – And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezek 20:13 – But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
Ezek 20:21 – But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
Mic 7:9 – I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Faithful
Deut 7:12 – "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
1 Kgs 6:12 – "Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
1 Chr 22:13 – Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.
1 Chr 28:7 – I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'
Ps 37:28 – For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Isa 61:8 – For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
True , faithful
Deut 32:4 – "The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Neh 9:13 – You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
Ps 19:9 – the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
Ps 89:14 – Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
Ps 111:7 – The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy;
Ps 119:75 – I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Ps 119:160 – The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.Sin and Shin
Wise
Ps 36:6 – Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
Ps 119:91 – By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants.
Prov 1:3 – to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
Prov 8:20 – I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,
Isa 28:26 – For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.
Isa 40:14 – Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Good
Ps 119:39 – Turn away the reproach that I dread, for your rules are good.
Neh 9:13 – You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
Glorious
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
The motivations of God’s judgment
Love
Deut 10:18 – He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
1 Kgs 10:9 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
2 Chr 9:8 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
Ps 33:5 – He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
Isa 5:7 – For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Isa 16:5 – then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness."
Jer 9:24 – but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Zech 7:9 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Righteousness
Ps 33:5 – He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
Ps 37:28 – For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 89:14 – Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
Ps 99:4 – The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Isa 5:7 – For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Isa 61:8 – For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Jer 9:24 – but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."
The purposes of God’s judgments/statues
Realize righteousness
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
Lev 19:15 – "You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Lev 19:35 – "You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
Deut 19:6 – lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.
Deut 21:17 – but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
Ps 7:6 – Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
Ps 10:18 – to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
Ps 72:4 – May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
Ps 94:15 – for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
Ps 99:4 – The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Ps 33:5 – He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
Ps 37:28 – For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 50:6 – The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah
Ps 99:4 – The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Prov 2:8 – guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
Isa 1:26 – And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 16:5 – then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness."
Isa 26:9 – My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa 28:17 – And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
Isa 33:5 – The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,
Isa 34:5 – For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
Isa 42:1 – Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isa 42:3 – a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.
Isa 42:4 – He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Isa 51:5 – My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.
Jer 23:5 – "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Jer 33:15 – In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Amos 5:24 – But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Hab 1:12 – Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
Zeph 2:3 – Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.
Make sins known
Deut 17:12 – The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
1 Sam 7:6 – So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the LORD and fasted on that day and said there, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.
2 Chr 19:10 – whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.
Ps 58:1 – Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
Ps 82:2 – "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
Ps 94:2 – Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!
Ps 143:2 – Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
Isa 3:14 – The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Jer 2:35 – you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.'
Jer 22:13 – "Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages,
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Ezek 16:38 – And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezek 20:4 – Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Let them know the abominations of their fathers,
Ezek 22:2 – "And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.
Ezek 23:36 – The LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Dan 9:5 – we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
Mic 3:8 – But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
Mal 3:5 – "Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
Vindicate
Deut 10:18 – He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Job 36:6 – He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
Ps 7:6 – Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
Ps 9:4 – For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
Ps 35:23 – Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord!
Ps 37:6 – He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
Ps 140:12 – I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.
Ps 146:7 – who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry.The LORD sets the prisoners free;
Lam 3:59 – You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause.
Isa 1:17 – learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Isa 3:14 – The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Comfort and guide
Num 27:21 – And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation."
Deut 5:31 – But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.'
1 Chr 22:13 – Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.
2 Chr 9:8 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
Ps 25:9 – He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
Ps 119:52 – When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O LORD.
Ps 119:175 – Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me.
Prov 1:3 – to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Jer 48:47 – Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Enable men to know God
Ex 18:16 – when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws."
Isa 33:5 – The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,
Ezek 7:27 – The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 11:10 – You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Ezek 35:11 – therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them, when I judge you.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Save men
Judg 2:16 – Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
Judg 2:18 – Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
Ps 10:18 – to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
Ps 72:4 – May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
Ezek 34:22 – I will rescue my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.
Give glory to the saints
Ps 48:11 – Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments!
Ps 97:8 – Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of your judgments, O LORD.
Ps 149:9 – to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the LORD!
Isa 54:17 – no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD."
Fulfill peace
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Zech 7:9 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Zech 8:16 – These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
Inherit all the nations
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Obad 1:21 – Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
Fulfill salvation
Isa 51:5 – My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.
Test men
Ex 15:25 – And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,
The ways God judges
Chooses those who belong to Him
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
Deut 33:21 – He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a commander's portion was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people, with Israel he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments for Israel."
1 Chr 16:12 – Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered,
Ps 81:4 – For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.
Ps 105:5 – Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,
Ps 122:5 – There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
Ps 147:19 – He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel.
Ps 147:20 – He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!
Isa 5:7 – For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Isa 54:17 – no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD."
Uses statues and rules
Ex 15:25 – And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,
Ex 21:9 – If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.
Ex 21:31 – If it gores a man's son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule.
Ex 24:3 – Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do."
Lev 18:4 – You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:26 – But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you
Lev 19:15 – "You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Lev 19:35 – "You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
Lev 19:37 – And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the LORD."
Lev 20:22 – "You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
Lev 24:22 – You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the LORD your God."
Lev 25:18 – "Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.
Lev 26:46 – These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between him and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.
Num 9:3 – On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it."
Num 9:14 – And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native."
Num 15:16 – One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."
Num 15:24 – then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one male goat for a sin offering.
Num 27:11 – And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest kinsman of his clan, and he shall possess it. And it shall be for the people of Israel a statute and rule, as the LORD commanded Moses.'"
Num 27:21 – And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation."
Num 29:6 – besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its grain offering, and the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offering, according to the rule for them, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
Num 29:18 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:21 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:24 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:27 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:30 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:33 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:37 – and the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 36:13 – These are the commandments and the rules that the LORD commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Num 35:29 – And these things shall be for a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
Deut 4:1 – "And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deut 4:5 – See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deut 4:14 – And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.
Deut 4:45 – These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
Deut 5:1 – And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.
Deut 5:31 – But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.'
Deut 6:1 – "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,
Deut 7:11 – You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
Deut 7:12 – "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
Deut 8:11 – "Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,
Deut 11:1 – "You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.
Deut 11:32 – you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
Deut 12:1 – "These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
Deut 17:8 – "If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.
Deut 21:17 – but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
Deut 26:16 – "This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deut 26:17 – You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.
Deut 30:16 – If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deut 33:21 – He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a commander's portion was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people, with Israel he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments for Israel."
Josh 24:25 – So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem.
1 Kgs 2:3 – and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,
1 Kgs 6:12 – "Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
1 Kgs 8:58 – that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.
1 Kgs 9:4 – And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,
1 Kgs 11:33 – because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.
2 Kgs 17:37 – And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,
1 Chr 22:13 – Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.
1 Chr 28:7 – I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'
1 Chr 28:7 – I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'
2 Chr 7:17 – And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,
2 Chr 19:10 – whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.
Neh 10:29 – join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.
Ps 119:106 – I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to keep your righteous rules.
Ps 119:175 – Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me.
Ps 147:19 – He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel.
Ps 147:20 – He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!
Neh 1:7 – We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.
Neh 9:13 – You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
Isa 33:22 – For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us.
Jer 32:7 – Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.'
Jer 32:8 – Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the LORD, and said to me, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Ezek 11:20 – that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezek 18:8 – does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,
Ezek 18:9 – walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully–he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 18:17 – withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.
Ezek 18:19 – "Yet you say, 'Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?' When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.
Ezek 20:11 – I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.
Ezek 20:13 – But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
Ezek 20:18 – "And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezek 20:19 – I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules,
Ezek 20:21 – But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Ezek 36:27 – And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Ezek 37:24 – "My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
Ezek 44:24 – In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
Mal 4:4 – "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
Raises up agents
Moses
Ex 18:13 – The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening.
Ex 18:22 – And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.
Ex 18:26 – And they judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.
Ex 24:3 – Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do."
Lev 26:46 – These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between him and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.
Num 25:5 – And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor."
Num 27:11 – And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest kinsman of his clan, and he shall possess it. And it shall be for the people of Israel a statute and rule, as the LORD commanded Moses.'"
Num 36:13 – These are the commandments and the rules that the LORD commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Deut 4:5 – See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deut 4:8 – And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Deut 4:14 – And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.
Deut 4:45 – These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
Deut 5:1 – And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.
Deut 5:31 – But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.'
1 Kgs 2:3 – and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,
2 Kgs 17:37 – And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,
2 Chr 33:8 – and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses."
Neh 1:7 – We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.
Neh 10:29 – join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.
Mal 4:4 – "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
Joshua
Josh 24:25 – So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem.
Judges
Judg 2:16 – Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
Judg 2:17 – Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.
Judg 2:18 – Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
Judg 2:19 – But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
Judg 3:10 – The Spirit of the LORD was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the LORD gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
Judg 4:4 – Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
Judg 4:5 – She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.
Judg 10:2 – And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried at Shamir.
Judg 10:3 – After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
Judg 12:7 – Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.
Judg 12:8 – After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Judg 12:9 – He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
Judg 12:11 – After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years.
Judg 12:13 – After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
Judg 12:14 – He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.
Judg 15:20 – And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Judg 16:31 – Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.
Ruth 1:1 – In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
1 Sam 4:18 – As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
1 Sam 7:15 – Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
1 Sam 7:16 – And he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah. And he judged Israel in all these places.
1 Sam 7:17 – Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he built there an altar to the LORD.
1 Sam 8:1 – When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
1 Sam 12:7 – Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous deeds of the LORD that he performed for you and for your fathers.
1 Sam 10:25 – Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the LORD. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.
2 Sam 15:4 – Then Absalom would say, "Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice."
2 Kgs 23:22 – For no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah.
1 Chr 17:6 – In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"'
1 Chr 23:4 – "Twenty-four thousand of these," David said, "shall have charge of the work in the house of the LORD, 6,000 shall be officers and judges,
Ezra 10:14 – Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us."
Kings
David
2 Sam 8:15 – So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.
2 Sam 15:2 – And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, "From what city are you?" And when he said, "Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,"
2 Sam 15:6 – Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
1 Chr 18:14 – So David reigned over all Israel, and he administered justice and equity to all his people.
Ps 17:2 – From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right!
Solomon
1 Kgs 3:9 – Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?"
1 Kgs 3:11 – And God said to him, "Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,
1 Kgs 3:28 – And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
1 Kgs 6:12 – "Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
1 Kgs 7:7 – And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment. It was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.
1 Kgs 10:9 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
1 Chr 22:13 – Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.
1 Chr 28:7 – I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'
2 Chr 1:10 – Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?"
2 Chr 1:11 – God answered Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king,
2 Chr 9:8 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
Ps 72:1 – Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!
Jotham
2 Kgs 15:5 – And the LORD touched the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the household, governing the people of the land.
2 Chr 26:21 – And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the LORD. And Jotham his son was over the king's household, governing the people of the land.
Ahab
1 Kgs 20:40 – And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." The king of Israel said to him, "So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it."
Josiah
Jer 22:15 – Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
King of the chosen people
1 Sam 8:5 – and said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations."
1 Sam 8:6 – But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." And Samuel prayed to the LORD.
1 Sam 8:20 – that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."
Ps 72:1 – Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!
Ps 72:4 – May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
Prov 16:10 – An oracle is on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment.
Prov 29:14 – If a king faithfully judges the poor, his throne will be established forever.
Prov 31:9 – Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Ezek 45:9 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.
Priests
Ex 28:15 – "You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work. In the style of the ephod you shall make it–of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen shall you make it.
Ex 28:29 – So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment on his heart, when he goes into the Holy Place, to bring them to regular remembrance before the LORD.
Ex 28:30 – And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the LORD. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the LORD regularly.
Deut 17:9 – And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.
Deut 17:12 – The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Deut 33:10 – They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
Num 27:21 – And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation."
Deut 17:9 – And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.
Deut 17:11 – According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.
2 Kgs 17:27 – Then the king of Assyria commanded, "Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him go and dwell there and teach them the law of the god of the land."
2 Chr 19:8 – Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the LORD and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.
2 Chr 19:10 – whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.
Ezra 7:10 – For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
Jer 26:11 – Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, "This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears."
Jer 26:16 – Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."
Ezek 44:24 – In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
Princes, rulers, judges
Ex 2:14 – He answered, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known."
Ex 18:22 – And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.
Ex 18:26 – And they judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.
Ex 2:14 – He answered, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known."
Num 25:5 – And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor."
Deut 1:16 – And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
Deut 1:17 – You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'
Deut 16:18 – "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deut 17:8 – "If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.
Deut 17:9 – And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.
Deut 17:11 – According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.
Deut 17:12 – The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Deut 19:17 – then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.
Deut 19:18 – The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,
Deut 21:2 – then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
Deut 25:2 – then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.
Josh 8:33 – And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.
Josh 23:2 – Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, "I am now old and well advanced in years.
Josh 24:1 – Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
2 Chr 1:2 – Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses.
2 Chr 19:5 – He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
2 Chr 19:6 – and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.
2 Chr 19:8 – Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the LORD and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.
2 Chr 19:10 – whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.
Jer 5:28 – they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Hos 7:7 – All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me.
Mic 3:1 – And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?–
Mic 3:11 – Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us."
Mic 5:1 – Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek.
Mic 7:3 – Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
Zeph 3:3 – Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.
Prophets
Num 27:5 – Moses brought their case before the LORD.
Jer 26:11 – Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, "This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears."
Jer 26:16 – Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."
Ezek 20:4 – Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Let them know the abominations of their fathers,
Ezek 23:36 – The LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.
Hos 6:5 – Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.
Mic 3:8 – But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
Elders
Deut 21:2 – then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.
Josh 8:33 – And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.
Josh 23:2 – Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, "I am now old and well advanced in years.
Josh 24:1 – Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
Ezra 10:14 – Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us."
Heads
Josh 23:2 – Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, "I am now old and well advanced in years.
Josh 24:1 – Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
2 Chr 1:2 – Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses.
Other nations
1 Sam 8:11 – He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.
2 Kgs 25:6 – Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.
Jer 39:5 – But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at Riblah, in the land of Hamath; and he passed sentence on him.
Jer 52:9 – Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.
Ezek 23:24 – And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Ezek 24:14 – I am the LORD. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord GOD."
Hab 1:7 – They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
Hab 1:12 – Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
Levites
Deut 17:9 – And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.
The righteous
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Congregations
Lev 19:15 – "You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Num 35:12 – The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Deut 17:8 – "If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.
Josh 20:6 – And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.'"
Isa 5:3 – And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
Zech 7:9 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Zech 8:16 – These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
Christ
Ps 122:5 – There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 16:5 – then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness."
Isa 32:1 – Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
Isa 42:1 – Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isa 42:3 – a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.
Isa 42:4 – He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.
Isa 53:8 – By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
Jer 23:5 – "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 33:15 – In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Ezek 37:24 – "My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
Forewarns
Ezek 7:3 – Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 7:8 – Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 16:38 – And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezek 18:30 – "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
Ezek 33:20 – Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways."
Vindicates and rewards the righteous
1 Kgs 8:32 – then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
2 Chr 6:23 – then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
Ps 9:4 – For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
Ps 58:11 – Mankind will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth."
Isa 11:4 – but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
Repays the guilty, personally executes judgments and punishments
Gen 18:25 – Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
Deut 17:12 – The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Deut 32:41 – if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
1 Kgs 8:32 – then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
2 Chr 6:23 – then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
Ps 7:6 – Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
Ps 9:4 – For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
Ps 9:16 – The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah
Ps 99:4 – The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Ps 119:84 – How long must your servant endure? When will you judge those who persecute me?
Isa 3:14 – The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Isa 11:4 – but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
Isa 26:9 – My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa 28:17 – And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
Isa 34:5 – For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
Jer 21:12 – O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "'Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.'"
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Jer 48:21 – "Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath,
Jer 51:9 – We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.
Ezek 5:8 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 7:3 – Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 7:8 – Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 11:10 – You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 11:11 – This city shall not be your cauldron, nor shall you be the meat in the midst of it. I will judge you at the border of Israel,
Ezek 16:38 – And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezek 17:20 – I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me.
Ezek 20:13 – But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
Ezek 20:35 – And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
Ezek 20:36 – As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 21:30 – Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
Ezek 23:24 – And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Ezek 24:14 – I am the LORD. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Ezek 38:22 – With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Hos 6:5 – Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.
Hos 10:4 – They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
Zeph 2:3 – Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Mal 3:5 – "Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
Enables men to do righteousness
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
Job 34:4 – Let us choose what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.
Ps 37:30 – The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
Ps 106:3 – Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!
Ps 119:121 – I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.
Prov 21:3 – To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Prov 21:15 – When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
Prov 12:5 – The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
Isa 26:9 – My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa 28:17 – And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
Jer 21:12 – O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "'Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.'"
Jer 22:3 – Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Ezek 18:5 – "If a man is righteous and does what is just and right–
Hos 12:6 – "So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."
Amos 5:15 – Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Mic 6:8 – He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Tests the hearts of men
Jer 11:20 – But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
Ps 7:8 – The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
Gives Himself up for the sins of men
Isa 53:8 – By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
Afflicts men
Ps 119:75 – I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Gives men up to evil rules
Ezek 20:25 – Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life,
Principles of judgment
According to what each person has done
Deut 19:18 – The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,
1 Kgs 8:32 – then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
2 Chr 6:23 – then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
Ps 7:8 – The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
Ezek 7:3 – Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 7:27 – The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 17:20 – I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me.
Ezek 18:30 – "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
Ezek 24:14 – I am the LORD. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 33:20 – Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways."
Ezek 35:11 – therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them, when I judge you.
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Righteousness
Lev 19:15 – "You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Deut 1:16 – And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
Deut 16:18 – "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Ps 7:11 – God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
Ps 9:4 – For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
Ps 9:8 – and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.
Ps 58:1 – Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
Ps 82:2 – "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
Ps 96:13 – before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
Ps 98:9 – before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
Prov 31:9 – Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Isa 11:4 – but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
Jer 11:20 – But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
Uprightness
Ps 9:8 – and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.
Ps 58:1 – Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
Ps 75:2 – "At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity.
Isa 11:4 – but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
In accordance with the rules
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Ezek 44:24 – In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
Equity
Ps 67:4 – Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah
Ps 98:9 – before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
God’s words
Zech 7:9 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Zech 8:16 – These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
Faithfulness
Ps 96:13 – before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
Prov 29:14 – If a king faithfully judges the poor, his throne will be established forever.
God’s wisdom
1 Kgs 3:9 – Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?"
According to the judgments of the enemies
Ezek 23:24 – And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Men’s judgment
How should it be?
Ex 18:22 – And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.
Lev 19:15 – "You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Deut 1:16 – And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
Deut 16:18 – "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deut 17:9 – And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.
Deut 17:12 – The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Deut 19:18 – The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,
Deut 21:2 – then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
Deut 25:2 – then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.
2 Chr 19:6 – and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.
Ps 10:18 – to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
Ps 82:3 – Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Prov 31:9 – Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Isa 1:17 – learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Ezek 44:24 – In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
Zech 7:9 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Zech 8:16 – These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
How is it in reality?
When the judge is righteous
Num 25:5 – And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor."
1 Sam 7:6 – So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the LORD and fasted on that day and said there, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.
1 Sam 7:16 – And he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah. And he judged Israel in all these places.
1 Sam 7:17 – Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he built there an altar to the LORD.
2 Chr 19:5 – He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
Ezra 10:14 – Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us."
When the judge is unrighteous
Ps 58:1 – Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
Ps 82:2 – "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
Isa 1:23 – Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
Isa 59:4 – No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Jer 5:28 – they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Ezek 22:2 – "And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Mic 3:11 – Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us."
Mic 7:3 – Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
Zeph 3:3 – Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.
When the people do not obey the judge
Judg 2:17 – Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.
Judg 2:19 – But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
Hos 7:7 – All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me.
How should men prepare to face judgment?
Rely and call on God
Gen 16:5 – And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
Gen 31:53 – The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,
Judg 11:27 – I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon."
1 Sam 24:12 – May the LORD judge between me and you, may the LORD avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.
1 Sam 24:15 – May the LORD therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand."
2 Chr 20:12 – O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."
Job 9:15 – Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
Job 23:7 – There an upright man could argue with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.
Ps 7:8 – The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
Ps 9:19 – Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!
Ps 26:1 – Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Ps 35:24 – Vindicate me, O LORD, my God, according to your righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me!
Ps 43:1 – Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
Lam 3:59 – You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause.
Confess and repent
1 Sam 7:6 – So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the LORD and fasted on that day and said there, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.
Ezra 10:14 – Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us."
Ps 51:4 – Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
Jer 2:35 – you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.'
Ezek 18:30 – "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
Rejoice and hope
1 Chr 16:33 – Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth.
Ps 67:4 – Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Isa 51:5 – My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.
Hold integrity
Ps 7:8 – The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
Ps 35:24 – Vindicate me, O LORD, my God, according to your righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me!
Do justice, love kindness
Ps 82:3 – Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Isa 1:17 – learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Know God’s deeds
1 Sam 12:7 – Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous deeds of the LORD that he performed for you and for your fathers.
How should men obey God’s judgments/statues?
Command, teach, and pass down
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
Ex 24:3 – Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do."
Ex 28:30 – And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the LORD. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the LORD regularly.
Num 27:21 – And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation."
Num 36:13 – These are the commandments and the rules that the LORD commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Deut 4:1 – "And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deut 4:5 – See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deut 4:14 – And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.
Deut 5:1 – And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.
Deut 5:31 – But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.'
Deut 6:1 – "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,
Deut 6:20 – "When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?'
Deut 7:12 – "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
Deut 8:11 – "Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,
Deut 17:9 – And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.
Deut 17:11 – According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.
Deut 30:16 – If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deut 33:10 – They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
1 Kgs 8:58 – that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.
2 Kgs 17:27 – Then the king of Assyria commanded, "Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him go and dwell there and teach them the law of the god of the land."
1 Chr 16:12 – Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered,
1 Chr 22:13 – Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.
2 Chr 7:17 – And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,
2 Chr 19:10 – whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.
Ezra 7:10 – For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
Neh 10:29 – join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.
Ps 105:5 – Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,
Ps 119:7 – I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.
Ps 119:13 – With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
Ps 119:43 – And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.
Ps 119:52 – When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O LORD.
Ps 119:108 – Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O LORD, and teach me your rules.
Isa 1:17 – learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Mal 4:4 – "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
Carry out God’s statues in speech and conduct
Lev 9:16 – And he presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the rule.
2 Sam 8:15 – So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.
1 Kgs 11:33 – because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.
1 Chr 18:14 – So David reigned over all Israel, and he administered justice and equity to all his people.
1 Chr 23:31 – and whenever burnt offerings were offered to the LORD on Sabbaths, new moons and feast days, according to the number required of them, regularly before the LORD.
1 Chr 24:19 – These had as their appointed duty in their service to come into the house of the LORD according to the procedure established for them by Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
2 Chr 4:7 – And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
2 Chr 4:20 – the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed;
2 Chr 8:14 – According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God had commanded.
2 Chr 30:16 – They took their accustomed posts according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests threw the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites.
2 Chr 35:13 – And they roasted the Passover lamb with fire according to the rule; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people.
Ezra 3:4 – And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required,
Neh 8:18 – And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. They kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule.
Neh 10:29 – join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.
Ps 37:30 – The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
Ps 119:43 – And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.
Ps 119:106 – I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to keep your righteous rules.
Ps 119:175 – Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me.
Prov 12:5 – The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
Prov 18:5 – It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.
Prov 24:23 – These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Jer 32:7 – Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.'
Jer 32:8 – Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the LORD, and said to me, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Ezek 18:8 – does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,
Ezek 18:17 – withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.
Ezek 44:24 – In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
Amos 5:15 – Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Zeph 2:3 – Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.
Zech 7:9 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Zech 8:16 – These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
Make judgments according to God’s words
Ex 28:15 – "You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work. In the style of the ephod you shall make it–of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen shall you make it.
Ex 28:29 – So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment on his heart, when he goes into the Holy Place, to bring them to regular remembrance before the LORD.
Ex 28:30 – And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the LORD. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the LORD regularly.
Num 27:21 – And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation."
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Deut 1:17 – You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'
Deut 16:18 – "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deut 17:8 – "If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.
Deut 17:9 – And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
1 Kgs 3:28 – And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
2 Chr 19:6 – and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.
Job 34:4 – Let us choose what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.
Ps 25:9 – He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
Prov 16:10 – An oracle is on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment.
Prov 18:5 – It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.
Prov 24:23 – These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.
Prov 29:4 – By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down.
Jer 32:7 – Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.'
Jer 32:8 – Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the LORD, and said to me, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Ezek 44:24 – In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
Zech 7:9 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Zech 8:16 – These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
Repent and turn to righteousness
Neh 1:7 – We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.
Ps 119:102 – I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me.
Jer 7:5 – "For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another,
Jer 10:24 – Correct me, O LORD, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
Ezek 18:21 – "But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Ezek 18:27 – Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.
Ezek 33:16 – None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.
Ezek 33:19 – And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by them.
Ezek 45:9 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.
Dan 9:5 – we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
Hos 12:6 – "So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."
Amos 5:15 – Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Mic 3:9 – Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,
Mic 7:9 – I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.
Call on God
1 Kgs 8:45 – then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
1 Kgs 8:49 – then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause
1 Kgs 8:59 – Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,
2 Chr 6:35 – then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
2 Chr 6:39 – then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
Ps 7:6 – Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
Ps 35:23 – Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord!
Ps 119:39 – Turn away the reproach that I dread, for your rules are good.
Ps 119:84 – How long must your servant endure? When will you judge those who persecute me?
Ps 119:108 – Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O LORD, and teach me your rules.
Ps 119:132 – Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is your way with those who love your name.
Ps 119:149 – Hear my voice according to your steadfast love; O LORD, according to your justice give me life.
Ps 119:156 – Great is your mercy, O LORD; give me life according to your rules.
Ps 119:175 – Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me.
Ps 143:2 – Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
Prov 28:5 – Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.
Lam 3:59 – You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause.
Love God’s words, study God’s words
Ezra 7:10 – For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
Ps 25:9 – He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
Ps 48:11 – Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments!
Ps 97:8 – Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of your judgments, O LORD.
Ps 119:7 – I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.
Ps 119:20 – My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.
Ps 119:30 – I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.
Ps 119:43 – And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.
Ps 119:108 – Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O LORD, and teach me your rules.
Ps 119:149 – Hear my voice according to your steadfast love; O LORD, according to your justice give me life.
Ps 119:156 – Great is your mercy, O LORD; give me life according to your rules.
Ps 119:175 – Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me.
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Hos 12:6 – "So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."
Love and acknowledge God
Deut 11:1 – "You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.
Deut 26:17 – You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.
Deut 30:16 – If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Ps 119:43 – And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.
Ps 119:62 – At midnight I rise to praise you, because of your righteous rules.
Ps 119:132 – Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is your way with those who love your name.
Ps 119:164 – Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules.
Isa 26:8 – In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.
Isa 26:9 – My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isa 49:4 – But I said, "I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God."
Know God
Ps 119:75 – I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Jer 5:4 – Then I said, "These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
Jer 5:5 – I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
Jer 8:7 – Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the LORD.
Jer 9:24 – but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."
Fear God
2 Chr 19:6 – and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.
Ps 119:30 – I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.
Ps 119:120 – My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.Ayin
Eccl 11:9 – Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Wait on God
Isa 26:8 – In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.
Isa 30:18 – Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
Hos 12:6 – "So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
The results of obeying God’s judgment
Peace and prosperity
Lev 25:18 – "Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.
1 Kgs 2:3 – and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,
1 Chr 22:13 – Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.
1 Chr 28:7 – I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'
2 Chr 19:10 – whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.
2 Chr 33:8 – and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses."
Ps 37:6 – He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
Ps 58:11 – Mankind will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth."
Prov 29:4 – By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down.
Eccl 8:5 – Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 33:22 – For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us.
Zeph 3:15 – The LORD has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil.
Life
Deut 30:16 – If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Ps 119:149 – Hear my voice according to your steadfast love; O LORD, according to your justice give me life.
Ps 119:156 – Great is your mercy, O LORD; give me life according to your rules.
Ezek 18:9 – walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully–he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 18:17 – withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.
Ezek 18:19 – "Yet you say, 'Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?' When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.
Ezek 18:21 – "But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Ezek 18:27 – Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.
Ezek 20:21 – But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezek 33:16 – None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.
Ezek 33:19 – And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by them.
Wisdom
Ps 25:9 – He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
Ps 119:43 – And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.
Prov 1:3 – to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
Prov 2:9 – Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
Prov 16:10 – An oracle is on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment.
Prov 28:5 – Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.
Eccl 8:5 – Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.
Isa 28:26 – For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Joy/blessing
Deut 30:16 – If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Ps 48:11 – Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments!
Ps 97:8 – Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of your judgments, O LORD.
Ps 106:3 – Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!
Ps 119:52 – When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O LORD.
Prov 21:15 – When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
Jer 22:15 – Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
God’s favor
Deut 7:12 – "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
Prov 21:3 – To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Honor
Ps 119:39 – Turn away the reproach that I dread, for your rules are good.
Ps 149:9 – to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the LORD!
Live and multiply
Deut 30:16 – If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Be hidden from God’s anger
Zeph 2:3 – Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.
The expressions of not following God’s statutes
No righteousness/uprightness/integrity
1 Sam 8:3 – Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice.
Prov 21:7 – The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.
Eccl 3:16 – Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.
Eccl 5:8 – If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
Isa 1:21 – How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Isa 3:14 – The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Isa 5:7 – For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Isa 10:2 – to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Isa 32:7 – As for the scoundrel–his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.
Isa 59:8 – The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.
Isa 59:11 – We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
Isa 59:14 – Justice is turned back,and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has stumbled in the public squares,and uprightness cannot enter.
Isa 59:15 – Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Jer 5:28 – they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Jer 17:11 – Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
Jer 22:13 – "Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages,
Ezek 45:9 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.
Hos 10:4 – They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
Hab 1:4 – So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.
Zeph 3:5 – The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.
Mic 3:9 – Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,
Breaking the commandments
Lev 26:15 – if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
Lev 26:43 – But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.
2 Kgs 17:34 – To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
2 Kgs 17:40 – However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.
Neh 9:29 – And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.
Ps 89:30 – If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules,
Ezek 5:6 – And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
Ezek 20:16 – because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Dan 9:5 – we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
Violence and contentions
Job 36:17 – "But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
Isa 1:21 – How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Isa 5:7 – For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Isa 10:2 – to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Ezek 5:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
Ezek 7:23 – "Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
Ezek 45:9 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.
Forsaking God, worshiping idols
1 Kgs 11:33 – because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.
2 Kgs 17:33 – So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
Jer 1:16 – And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
Ezek 20:16 – because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Ezek 20:18 – "And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezek 20:24 – because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.
Following the manners of others
2 Kgs 17:33 – So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
2 Kgs 17:34 – To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
2 Kgs 17:40 – However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Ezek 20:18 – "And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezek 20:25 – Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life,
Not observing the sabbath
Ezek 20:13 – But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
Ezek 20:16 – because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Ezek 20:21 – But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezek 20:24 – because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.
Not repentant
Mal 2:17 – You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say, "How have we wearied him?" By saying, "Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them." Or by asking, "Where is the God of justice?"
Reasons for not following God’s statutes
Rejecting the truth/unwilling to submit to the truth
Lev 26:15 – if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
Lev 26:43 – But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.
2 Kgs 17:34 – To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
2 Kgs 17:40 – However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.
Neh 9:29 – And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.
Prov 17:23 – The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.
Prov 21:7 – The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.
Isa 59:8 – The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.
Jer 5:5 – I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
Ezek 5:6 – And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Ezek 20:13 – But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
Ezek 20:16 – because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Ezek 20:21 – But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezek 20:24 – because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.
Dan 9:5 – we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
Hos 5:11 – Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.
Mic 3:9 – Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,
Following the manners of others
2 Kgs 17:33 – So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
2 Kgs 17:34 – To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
2 Kgs 17:40 – However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Ezek 20:18 – "And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezek 20:24 – because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.
Ezek 20:25 – Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life,
Hos 5:11 – Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.
Not knowing God’s words
1 Chr 15:13 – Because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule."
Job 32:9 – It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.
Prov 28:5 – Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.
Jer 5:4 – Then I said, "These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
Jer 8:7 – Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the LORD.
Not fearing God wholeheartedly
2 Kgs 17:33 – So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
2 Kgs 17:34 – To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
Hos 5:11 – Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.
Pride
Neh 9:29 – And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.
Results of not following God’s statues
Lose peace
Lev 20:22 – "You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
Lev 26:43 – But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.
1 Sam 8:9 – Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them."
Prov 13:23 – The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.
Prov 29:4 – By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down.
Isa 40:27 – Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?
Isa 59:8 – The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.
Isa 59:9 – Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
Isa 59:11 – We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
Jer 17:11 – Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
Ezek 7:23 – "Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
Ezek 7:27 – The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 23:24 – And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Hos 5:11 – Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.
Hos 10:4 – They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
Have to face God’s judgment, punishment
Deut 32:41 – if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
Ps 1:5 – Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
Ps 94:2 – Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!
Isa 3:14 – The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Isa 54:17 – no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD."
Isa 66:16 – For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many.
Jer 1:16 – And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
Jer 11:20 – But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
Jer 21:12 – O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "'Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.'"
Jer 22:13 – "Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages,
Jer 25:31 – The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.'
Jer 49:12 – For thus says the LORD: "If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.
Ezek 5:8 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 11:10 – You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 16:38 – And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezek 17:20 – I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me.
Ezek 20:35 – And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
Ezek 20:36 – As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
Ruin and destruction
Deut 32:41 – if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
1 Chr 15:13 – Because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule."
Prov 21:7 – The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.
Prov 21:15 – When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
Prov 29:4 – By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down.
Jer 17:11 – Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
Ezek 20:13 – But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
Ezek 21:27 – A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Hos 5:11 – Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
No justice
Prov 19:28 – A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
Eccl 3:16 – Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.
Eccl 5:8 – If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
Isa 32:7 – As for the scoundrel–his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.
Isa 59:11 – We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
Isa 59:14 – Justice is turned back,and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has stumbled in the public squares,and uprightness cannot enter.
Isa 59:15 – Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Amos 5:7 – O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!
Amos 6:12 – Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood–
Hab 1:4 – So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.
Sins remain
Prov 19:28 – A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
Ezek 7:23 – "Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
Isa 53:8 – By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
Dan 9:5 – we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
Mic 3:8 – But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
God’s displeasure and anger
Ps 7:11 – God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
Isa 59:15 – Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Ezek 7:3 – Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 7:8 – Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 16:38 – And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
No pardon
Jer 5:1 – Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.
No Joy
Ezek 7:27 – The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD."
Gen 16:5 – And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
Judg 11:27 – I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon."
1 Sam 24:12 – May the LORD judge between me and you, may the LORD avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.
2 Sam 18:19 – Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run and carry news to the king that the LORD has delivered him from the hand of his enemies."
2 Sam 18:31 – And behold, the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, "Good news for my lord the king! For the LORD has delivered you this day from the hand of all who rose up against you."
Isa 33:22 – For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us.
Isa 66:16 – For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many.
Jer 11:20 – But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
He, הוּא
Judg 4:4 – Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
Judg 16:31 – Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.
1 Sam 4:18 – As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
Job 21:22 – Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?
Ps 9:8 – and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.
Ps 50:6 – The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah
Jer 25:31 – The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.'
God/god(s), אֱלֹהִים
Ps 7:11 – God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
Ps 58:11 – Mankind will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth."
Ps 75:7 – but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.
Eccl 3:17 – I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.
They, הֵם
Ex 18:22 – And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.
Ex 18:26 – And they judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
I, אֲנִי
1 Sam 3:13 – And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.
Ps 75:2 – "At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity.
Samuel, שְׁמוּאֵל
1 Sam 7:6 – So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the LORD and fasted on that day and said there, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.
1 Sam 7:15 – Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
King, מֶלֶךְ
1 Sam 8:20 – that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."
1 Kgs 3:28 – And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
Gathering, עֵדָה
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
[judge], יִפְתָּח
Judg 12:7 – Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.
Ibzan, אִבְצָן
Judg 12:8 – After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
[judge], אֵילֹון
Judg 12:11 – After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years.
Abdon, עַבְדֹּון
Judg 12:13 – After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
Judge, שָׁפַט
Ruth 1:1 – In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
Who, מִי
2 Chr 1:10 – Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?"
Jehu, יֵהוּא
2 Chr 22:8 – And when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them.
Nation, גֹּוי
Ps 9:19 – Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!
Earth, אֶרֶץ
Ps 96:13 – before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
Man, אִישׁ
Prov 29:9 – If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.
Arm, זְרֹועַ
Isa 51:5 – My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.
Head, רֹאשׁ
Mic 3:11 – Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us."
Objects of "Judge" (שָׁפַט)
Israel, יִשְׂרָאֵל
Judg 3:10 – The Spirit of the LORD was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the LORD gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
Judg 4:4 – Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
Judg 10:2 – And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried at Shamir.
Judg 10:3 – After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
Judg 12:7 – Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.
Judg 12:8 – After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Judg 12:9 – He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
Judg 12:11 – After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years.
Judg 12:13 – After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
Judg 12:14 – He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.
Judg 15:20 – And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Judg 16:31 – Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.
1 Sam 4:18 – As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
1 Sam 7:15 – Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
1 Sam 7:16 – And he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah. And he judged Israel in all these places.
1 Sam 7:17 – Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he built there an altar to the LORD.
2 Kgs 23:22 – For no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah.
People, עַם
Ex 18:13 – The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening.
Ex 18:22 – And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.
Ex 18:26 – And they judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.
Deut 16:18 – "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
1 Kgs 3:9 – Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?"
2 Kgs 15:5 – And the LORD touched the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the household, governing the people of the land.
2 Chr 1:10 – Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?"
2 Chr 1:11 – God answered Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king,
2 Chr 26:21 – And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the LORD. And Jotham his son was over the king's household, governing the people of the land.
Ps 67:4 – Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah
Ps 96:13 – before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
Ps 98:9 – before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
Isa 51:5 – My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.
[object marker], אֵת
Ezek 11:10 – You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 11:11 – This city shall not be your cauldron, nor shall you be the meat in the midst of it. I will judge you at the border of Israel,
Ezek 18:30 – "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
Ezek 20:4 – Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Let them know the abominations of their fathers,
Ezek 21:30 – Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Ezek 33:20 – Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways."
Justice, מִשְׁפָּט
Deut 16:18 – "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Jer 5:28 – they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Lam 3:59 – You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause.
Zech 7:9 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Zech 8:16 – These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
We
1 Sam 8:5 – and said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations."
1 Sam 8:6 – But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." And Samuel prayed to the LORD.
1 Sam 8:20 – that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."
Isa 33:22 – For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us.
Dan 9:12 – He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.
I
1 Sam 24:15 – May the LORD therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand."
Ps 7:8 – The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
Ps 26:1 – Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Ps 35:24 – Vindicate me, O LORD, my God, according to your righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me!
Ps 43:1 – Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
You
Ezek 7:3 – Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 7:8 – Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.
Ezek 16:38 – And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezek 23:24 – And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Ezek 24:14 – I am the LORD. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord GOD."
Him
2 Sam 18:19 – Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run and carry news to the king that the LORD has delivered him from the hand of his enemies."
Ps 37:33 – The LORD will not abandon him to his power or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.
Ps 109:7 – When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin!
Ezek 44:24 – In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
Orphan, יָתֹום
Ps 10:18 – to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
Ps 82:3 – Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Isa 1:17 – learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Isa 1:23 – Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
Them
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
Ezek 7:27 – The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
You
2 Sam 18:31 – And behold, the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, "Good news for my lord the king! For the LORD has delivered you this day from the hand of all who rose up against you."
Ps 51:4 – Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
Ezek 35:11 – therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them, when I judge you.
Earth, אֶרֶץ
1 Chr 16:33 – Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth.
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Ps 98:9 – before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
World, תֵּבֵל
Ps 9:8 – and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.
Ps 96:13 – before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.
Ps 98:9 – before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
Poor, דַּל
Ps 82:3 – Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Prov 29:14 – If a king faithfully judges the poor, his throne will be established forever.
Isa 11:4 – but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
Word, דָּבָר
Ex 18:22 – And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.
Ex 18:26 – And they judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.
Justice, צֶדֶק
Deut 1:16 – And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
Prov 31:9 – Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Servant, עֶבֶד
1 Kgs 8:32 – then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
2 Chr 6:23 – then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
Fellow, עָמִית
Lev 19:15 – "You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
House, בַּיִת
1 Sam 3:13 – And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.
Son, בֵּן
1 Sam 7:6 – So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the LORD and fasted on that day and said there, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.
Justice, צְדָקָה
1 Sam 12:7 – Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous deeds of the LORD that he performed for you and for your fathers.
Be high, רוּם
Job 21:22 – Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?
Oppressed, דַּךְ
Ps 10:18 – to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.
Uprightness, מֵישָׁרִים
Ps 58:1 – Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
Humble, עָנִי
Ps 72:4 – May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
Injustice, עָוֶל
Ps 82:2 – "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
Just, צַדִּיק
Eccl 3:17 – I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.
Guilty, רָשָׁע
Eccl 3:17 – I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.
Together with, אֵת
Jer 2:35 – you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.'
City, עִיר
Ezek 22:2 – "And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.
Oholah, אָהֳלָה
Ezek 23:36 – The LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.
Oholibah, אָהֳלִיבָה
Ezek 23:36 – The LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.
Nation, גֹּוי
Joel 3:12 – Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Mountain, הַר
Obad 1:21 – Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
Trustworthiness, אֱמֶת
Zech 8:16 – These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
Verbs with "Judge" (שָׁפַט) as Subject
Do, עָשָׂה
Gen 18:25 – Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
Inquire, דַּרְיׄושׁ
Deut 19:18 – The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,
Go out, יָצָא
Deut 21:2 – then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.
Fall, נָפַל
Deut 25:2 – then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.
Judge, שָׁפַט
Ruth 1:1 – In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
Let loose, שָׁמַט
Ps 141:6 – When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.
Verbs with "Judge" (שָׁפַט) as Object
Command, צָוָה
Deut 1:16 – And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
2 Sam 7:11 – from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house.
1 Chr 17:10 – from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house.
Arise, קוּם
Judg 2:16 – Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
Judg 2:18 – Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
Give, נָתַן
Deut 16:18 – "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Put, שׂים
1 Sam 8:1 – When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
Stand, עָמַד
2 Chr 19:5 – He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
Be boastful, הָלַל
Job 12:17 – He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
Return, שׁוּב
Isa 1:26 – And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."
Do, עָשָׂה
Isa 40:23 – who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
Eat, אָכַל
Hos 7:7 – All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me.
Cut, כָּרַת
Amos 2:3 – I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its princes with him," says the LORD.
Strike, נָכָה
Mic 5:1 – Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek.
Indirect Objects of "Judge" (שָׁפַט)
Man, אִישׁ
Ex 18:16 – when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws."
Deut 1:16 – And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
Prov 29:9 – If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.
Hand, יָד
1 Sam 24:15 – May the LORD therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand."
2 Sam 18:19 – Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run and carry news to the king that the LORD has delivered him from the hand of his enemies."
2 Sam 18:31 – And behold, the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, "Good news for my lord the king! For the LORD has delivered you this day from the hand of all who rose up against you."
Lamb, שֶׂה
Ezek 34:17 – "As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats.
Ezek 34:20 – "Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
Ezek 34:22 – I will rescue my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.
Fellow, רֵעַ
Ex 18:16 – when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws."
Redeem, גְּאוּלִים
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Justice, מִשְׁפָּט
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Strike, נָכָה
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Brother, אָח
Deut 1:16 – And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
Sojourner, גֵּר
Deut 1:16 – And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
Son, בֵּן
Judg 11:27 – I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon."
House, בַּיִת
2 Chr 22:8 – And when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them.
Earth, אֶרֶץ
Ps 58:11 – Mankind will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth."
Interior, קֶרֶב
Ps 82:1 – God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
Vineyard, כֶּרֶם
Isa 5:3 – And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
Flesh, בָּשָׂר
Jer 25:31 – The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.'
Father, אָב
Ezek 20:36 – As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
People, עַם
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Verbs with "Judge" (שָׁפַט) as Indirect Object
Say, אָמַר
Num 25:5 – And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor."
2 Chr 1:2 – Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses.
2 Chr 19:6 – and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.
Hear, שָׁמַע
Deut 17:12 – The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Judg 2:17 – Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.
Call, קָרָא
Josh 23:2 – Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, "I am now old and well advanced in years.
Josh 24:1 – Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
Speak, דָּבַר
1 Chr 17:6 – In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"'
Dan 9:12 – He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.
Come, בֹּוא
Deut 17:9 – And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.
Be, הָיָה
Judg 2:18 – Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
Shew favour, חָנַן
Job 9:15 – Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
Escape, פָּלַט
Job 23:7 – There an upright man could argue with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.
Help, יָשַׁע
Ps 109:31 – For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.
Adjectives Modifying "Judge" (שָׁפַט)
Not, הֲלֹא
2 Chr 20:12 – O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."
Isa 1:23 – Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
Jer 5:28 – they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Just, צַדִּיק
Ps 7:11 – God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
[NEG], אַיִן
Isa 59:4 – No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Adverbs Modifying "Judge" (שָׁפַט)
There, שָׁם
1 Sam 7:17 – Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he built there an altar to the LORD.
1 Kgs 7:7 – And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment. It was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.
Judge, שָׁפַט
Gen 19:9 – But they said, "Stand back!" And they said, "This fellow came to sojourn, and he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down.
Uprightness, מֵישָׁרִים
Ps 75:2 – "At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity.
Together, יַחַד
Isa 43:26 – Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
So, כֵּן
Ezek 20:36 – As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
Words Modified by "Judge" (שָׁפַט)
Not, הֲלֹא
2 Chr 20:12 – O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."
Isa 1:23 – Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
Jer 5:28 – they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Judge, שָׁפַט
Gen 19:9 – But they said, "Stand back!" And they said, "This fellow came to sojourn, and he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down.
[NEG], אַיִן
Isa 59:4 – No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Predicate Complements of "Judge" (שָׁפַט)
Stand, עָמַד
Josh 8:33 – And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.
Six, שֵׁשׁ
1 Chr 23:4 – "Twenty-four thousand of these," David said, "shall have charge of the work in the house of the LORD, 6,000 shall be officers and judges,
In, among, בְּ
Mic 7:3 – Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
Wolf, זְאֵב
Zeph 3:3 – Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.
Prepositions with "Judge" (שָׁפַט)
To, for, לְ
Josh 23:2 – Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, "I am now old and well advanced in years.
Josh 24:1 – Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
1 Chr 26:29 – Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to external duties for Israel, as officers and judges.
2 Chr 1:2 – Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses.
Job 9:15 – Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
Ezek 44:24 – In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
To, אֶל
Num 25:5 – And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor."
Deut 17:9 – And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.
Deut 17:12 – The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Judg 2:17 – Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.
2 Chr 19:6 – and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.
Out of, מִן
Job 23:7 – There an upright man could argue with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.
Ps 109:31 – For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.
With, עִם
Judg 2:18 – Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
Together with, אֵת
1 Chr 17:6 – In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"'
Above, עַל
Dan 9:12 – He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.
"Judge" (שָׁפַט) with Prepositions
Interval, בַּיִן
Gen 16:5 – And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
Gen 31:53 – The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,
Ex 18:16 – when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws."
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Deut 1:16 – And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
Judg 11:27 – I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon."
1 Sam 24:12 – May the LORD judge between me and you, may the LORD avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.
1 Sam 24:15 – May the LORD therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand."
Isa 5:3 – And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
Ezek 34:17 – "As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats.
Ezek 34:20 – "Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
Ezek 34:22 – I will rescue my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Together with, אֵת
1 Sam 12:7 – Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous deeds of the LORD that he performed for you and for your fathers.
Prov 29:9 – If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.
Ezek 17:20 – I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me.
Ezek 20:35 – And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
Ezek 20:36 – As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
Out of, מִן
1 Sam 24:15 – May the LORD therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand."
2 Sam 18:19 – Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run and carry news to the king that the LORD has delivered him from the hand of his enemies."
2 Sam 18:31 – And behold, the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, "Good news for my lord the king! For the LORD has delivered you this day from the hand of all who rose up against you."
To, for, לְ
Jer 25:31 – The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.'
Ezek 34:17 – "As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats.
Ezek 34:22 – I will rescue my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.
In, among, בְּ
2 Chr 20:12 – O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you."
Ps 58:11 – Mankind will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth."
With, עִם
2 Chr 22:8 – And when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them.
Joel 3:2 – I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
Above, עַל
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
[object marker], אֵת
Ezek 38:22 – With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
… of "Judge" (שָׁפַט)
Face, לִפְנֵי
Deut 19:17 – then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.
Job 9:24 – The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges–if it is not he, who then is it?
Day, יׄום
Judg 2:18 – Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
2 Kgs 23:22 – For no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah.
Whole, כֹּל
Ps 148:11 – Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth!
Prov 8:16 – by me princes rule, and nobles, all who govern justly.
Die, מוּת
Judg 2:19 – But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
One, אֶחָד
1 Chr 17:6 – In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"'
"Judge" (שָׁפַט) of …
Earth, אֶרֶץ
Ps 2:10 – Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
Ps 94:2 – Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!
Ps 148:11 – Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth!
Prov 8:16 – by me princes rule, and nobles, all who govern justly.
Isa 40:23 – who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
Israel, יִשְׂרָאֵל
Num 25:5 – And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor."
1 Chr 17:6 – In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"'
Mic 5:1 – Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek.
Him
Josh 8:33 – And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.
Josh 23:2 – Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, "I am now old and well advanced in years.
Josh 24:1 – Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
Them
Judg 2:17 – Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.
Ps 141:6 – When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.
Hos 7:7 – All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me.
Her
Ezra 10:14 – Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us."
Job 9:24 – The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges–if it is not he, who then is it?
Zeph 3:3 – Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.
You
Deut 21:2 – then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.
Hos 13:10 – Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are all your rulers–those of whom you said, "Give me a king and princes"?
I
Job 9:15 – Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
Job 23:7 – There an upright man could argue with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.
Justice, צֶדֶק
Ps 9:4 – For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
Jer 11:20 – But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
Whole, כֹּל
Gen 18:25 – Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
You
Deut 1:16 – And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.
Soul, נֶפֶשׁ
Ps 109:31 – For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.
You
Isa 1:26 – And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."
We
Dan 9:12 – He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.
… and "Judge" (שָׁפַט)
Chief, סָרַר
Ex 2:14 – He answered, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known."
2 Chr 1:2 – Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses.
Ps 148:11 – Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth!
Register, שָׁטַר
Josh 8:33 – And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.
1 Chr 23:4 – "Twenty-four thousand of these," David said, "shall have charge of the work in the house of the LORD, 6,000 shall be officers and judges,
1 Chr 26:29 – Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to external duties for Israel, as officers and judges.
Old, זָקֵן
Deut 21:2 – then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.
Ezra 10:14 – Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us."
Head, רֹאשׁ
Josh 23:2 – Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, "I am now old and well advanced in years.
Josh 24:1 – Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
Priest, כֹּהֵן
Deut 17:9 – And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.
Man, אִישׁ
Isa 3:2 – the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,
Vigorous, גִּבֹּור
Isa 3:2 – the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,
"Judge" (שָׁפַט) and …
Register, שָׁטַר
Deut 16:18 – "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Josh 23:2 – Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, "I am now old and well advanced in years.
Josh 24:1 – Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
Whole, כֹּל
2 Chr 1:2 – Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses.
One lifted up, נָשִׂיא
2 Chr 1:2 – Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses.
Prophet, נָבִיא
Isa 3:2 – the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,
Ex 21:1 – "Now these are the rules that you shall set before them.
Lev 26:46 – These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between him and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.
Num 36:13 – These are the commandments and the rules that the LORD commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Deut 4:45 – These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
Deut 12:1 – "These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
This, זֶה
Deut 18:3 – And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.
1 Sam 8:11 – He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.
Site, מָכֹון
Ps 89:14 – Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
Ps 97:2 – Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
This, זׄאת
Deut 6:1 – "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,
Way, דֶּרֶךְ
Deut 32:4 – "The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Deed, מַעֲשֶׂה
Ps 111:7 – The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy;
Thought, מַחֲשָׁבָה
Prov 12:5 – The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
Verbs with "Justice" (מִשְׁפָּט) as Subject
Be, הָיָה
Lev 24:22 – You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the LORD your God."
Num 15:16 – One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."
Judg 13:12 – And Manoah said, "Now when your words come true, what is to be the child's manner of life, and what is his mission?"
2 Sam 15:4 – Then Absalom would say, "Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice."
Go out, יָצָא
Ps 17:2 – From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right!
Hos 6:5 – Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.
Hab 1:4 – So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.
Hab 1:7 – They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
Grasp, תָּמַךְ
Job 36:17 – "But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
Return, שׁוּב
Ps 94:15 – for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
Help, עָזַר
Ps 119:175 – Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me.
Dwell, שָׁכַן
Isa 32:16 – Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
Pass over, עָבַר
Isa 40:27 – Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?
Be far, רָחַק
Isa 59:9 – Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
Turn, שׂוּג
Isa 59:14 – Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.
Come, בֹּוא
Jer 48:21 – "Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath,
Touch, נָגַע
Jer 51:9 – We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.
Bud, פָּרַח
Hos 10:4 – They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
Roll, גָּלַל
Amos 5:24 – But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Verbs with "Justice" (מִשְׁפָּט) as Object
Do, עָשָׂה
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
Gen 18:25 – Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
Lev 18:4 – You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God.
Deut 10:18 – He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Deut 11:32 – you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
Deut 26:16 – "This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deut 33:21 – He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a commander's portion was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people, with Israel he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments for Israel."
2 Sam 8:15 – So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.
1 Kgs 3:28 – And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
1 Kgs 6:12 – "Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
1 Kgs 8:45 – then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
1 Kgs 8:49 – then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause
1 Kgs 8:59 – Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,
1 Kgs 10:9 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
1 Kgs 11:33 – because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.
1 Chr 18:14 – So David reigned over all Israel, and he administered justice and equity to all his people.
1 Chr 22:13 – Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.
1 Chr 28:7 – I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'
2 Chr 6:35 – then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
2 Chr 6:39 – then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
2 Chr 9:8 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
Ps 9:4 – For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
Ps 9:16 – The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah
Ps 99:4 – The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Ps 119:84 – How long must your servant endure? When will you judge those who persecute me?
Ps 119:121 – I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.
Ps 146:7 – who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free;
Ps 149:9 – to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the LORD!
Prov 21:3 – To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Prov 21:7 – The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.
Prov 21:15 – When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
Jer 5:1 – Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.
Jer 7:5 – "For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another,
Jer 9:24 – but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."
Jer 22:3 – Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Jer 22:15 – Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
Jer 23:5 – "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 33:15 – In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Ezek 5:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
Ezek 5:8 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Ezek 18:5 – "If a man is righteous and does what is just and right–
Ezek 18:8 – does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,
Ezek 18:17 – withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.
Ezek 18:19 – "Yet you say, 'Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?' When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.
Ezek 18:21 – "But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Ezek 18:27 – Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.
Ezek 20:24 – because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.
Ezek 33:14 – Again, though I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right,
Ezek 33:16 – None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.
Ezek 33:19 – And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by them.
Ezek 45:9 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.
Mic 6:8 – He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Mic 7:9 – I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.
Keep, שָׁמַר
Lev 18:5 – You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.
Lev 18:26 – But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you
Lev 19:37 – And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the LORD."
Lev 20:22 – "You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
Lev 25:18 – "Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.
Deut 7:11 – You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
Deut 8:11 – "Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,
Deut 11:1 – "You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.
Deut 26:17 – You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.
Deut 30:16 – If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
1 Kgs 2:3 – and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,
1 Kgs 8:58 – that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.
1 Kgs 9:4 – And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,
2 Kgs 17:37 – And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,
2 Chr 7:17 – And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,
Neh 1:7 – We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.
Ps 106:3 – Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!
Ps 119:106 – I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to keep your righteous rules.
Isa 56:1 – Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.
Ezek 11:20 – that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezek 18:9 – walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully–he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 20:18 – "And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezek 20:19 – I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules,
Ezek 20:21 – But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezek 36:27 – And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Hos 12:6 – "So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."
Speak, דָּבַר
1 Sam 10:25 – Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the LORD. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.
2 Kgs 25:6 – Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.
Ps 37:30 – The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
Isa 32:7 – As for the scoundrel–his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.
Jer 1:16 – And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
Jer 4:12 – a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them."
Jer 12:1 – Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
Jer 39:5 – But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at Riblah, in the land of Hamath; and he passed sentence on him.
Jer 52:9 – Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.
Know, דָּעָה
2 Kgs 17:26 – So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."
Eccl 8:5 – Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.
Jer 5:4 – Then I said, "These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
Jer 5:5 – I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
Jer 8:7 – Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the LORD.
Ezek 20:11 – I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.
Mic 3:1 – And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?–
Extend, נָטָה
Ex 23:6 – "You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.
Deut 16:19 – You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.
Deut 24:17 – "You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge,
Deut 27:19 – "'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
1 Sam 8:3 – Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice.
Lam 3:35 – to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High,
Give, נָתַן
Neh 9:13 – You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
Job 36:6 – He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
Ps 72:1 – Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!
Ezek 20:25 – Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life,
Ezek 23:24 – And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Zeph 3:5 – The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.
Judge, שָׁפַט
Deut 16:18 – "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Jer 5:28 – they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Lam 3:59 – You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause.
Zech 7:9 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Zech 8:16 – These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
Put, שׂים
Ex 15:25 – And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,
Josh 24:25 – So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem.
Isa 28:17 – And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
Isa 42:4 – He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.
Learn, לָמַד
Deut 4:5 – See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deut 4:14 – And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.
Ezra 7:10 – For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
Ps 119:108 – Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O LORD, and teach me your rules.
Hear, שָׁמַע
Deut 5:1 – And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.
Deut 7:12 – "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
1 Kgs 3:11 – And God said to him, "Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,
1 Kgs 3:28 – And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
Remember, זָכַר
1 Chr 16:12 – Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered,
Ps 105:5 – Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,
Ps 119:52 – When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O LORD.
Mal 4:4 – "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
Love, אָהַב
Ps 33:5 – He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
Ps 37:28 – For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 99:4 – The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Isa 61:8 – For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Turn aside, סוּר
Job 27:2 – "As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
Job 34:5 – For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
Zeph 3:15 – The LORD has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil.
Understand, בִּין
Job 32:9 – It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.
Prov 2:9 – Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
Prov 28:5 – Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.
Go out, יָצָא
Ps 37:6 – He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
Isa 42:1 – Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isa 42:3 – a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.
Be full, מָלֵא
Isa 33:5 – The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,
Ezek 7:23 – "Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
Mic 3:8 – But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
Count, סָפַר
Ex 24:3 – Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do."
Ps 119:13 – With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
Be, הָיָה
2 Sam 8:15 – So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.
1 Chr 18:14 – So David reigned over all Israel, and he administered justice and equity to all his people.
Be crooked, עָוַת
Job 8:3 – Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
Job 34:12 – Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.
Arrange in order, עָרַךְ
Job 13:18 – Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
Job 23:4 – I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
Reject, מָאַס
Job 31:13 – "If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me,
Ezek 20:13 – But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
Inquire, דַּרְיׄושׁ
Isa 1:17 – learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
Isa 16:5 – then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness."
Turn, הָפַךְ
Amos 5:7 – O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!
Amos 6:12 – Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood–
Lift, נָשָׂא
Ex 28:30 – And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the LORD. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the LORD regularly.
Abhor, גָּעַל
Lev 26:15 – if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
Approach, קָרַב
Num 27:5 – Moses brought their case before the LORD.
Throw, יׄורֶה
Deut 33:10 – They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
Report, נָגַד
1 Sam 8:9 – Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them."
Examine, בָּחוּר
Job 34:4 – Let us choose what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.
Be bowed down, עָנָה
Job 37:23 – The Almighty–we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
Break, פָּרַר
Job 40:8 – Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
Command, צָוָה
Ps 7:6 – Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
Sing, שִׁיר
Ps 101:1 – I will sing of steadfast love and justice; to you, O LORD, I will make music.
Be even, שָׁוָה
Ps 119:30 – I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.
Take, לָקַח
Prov 1:3 – to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
Scorner, לִיץ
Prov 19:28 – A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
Tear away, גָּזַל
Isa 10:2 – to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Disturb, רָגַע
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Leave, עָזַב
Isa 58:2 – Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Judge, דֹּון
Jer 21:12 – O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "'Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.'"
Rebel, מָרָה
Ezek 5:6 – And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
See, רָאָה
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Set, יָצַג
Amos 5:15 – Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Be abhorrent, תָּעַב
Mic 3:9 – Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,
Make, פָּעַל
Zeph 2:3 – Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.
Verbs with "Justice" (מִשְׁפָּט) as Indirect Object
Come, בֹּוא
Job 9:32 – For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
Job 14:3 – And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
Job 22:4 – Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?
Ps 143:2 – Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
Eccl 11:9 – Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Eccl 12:14 – For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Isa 3:14 – The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Do, עָשָׂה
Lev 19:35 – "You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
Deut 17:11 – According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.
Ezek 5:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Reject, מָאַס
Lev 26:43 – But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.
Ezek 5:6 – And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
Ezek 20:16 – because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Walk, הָלַךְ
Ps 89:30 – If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules,
Ezek 37:24 – "My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
Turn aside, סוּר
Ps 119:102 – I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me.
Dan 9:5 – we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
Wait for, קָוָה
Isa 5:7 – For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Isa 59:11 – We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
Sit, יָשַׁב
Isa 28:6 – and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Jer 30:18 – "Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt on its mound, and the palace shall stand where it used to be.
Ask, שָׁאַל
Num 27:21 – And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation."
Judge, שָׁפַט
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Hear, שָׁמַע
Deut 4:1 – "And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Be miraculous, פָּלָא
Deut 17:8 – "If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.
Approach, נָגַשׁ
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
Seize, אָחוּז
Deut 32:41 – if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
Put, שׂים
1 Sam 30:25 – And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to this day.
Account, חָשַׁב
Job 35:2 – "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'
Be firm, כּוּן
Ps 9:7 – But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,
Tread, דָּרַךְ
Ps 25:9 – He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
Wait, to hope, יָחַל
Ps 119:43 – And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.
Praise, יָדָה
Ps 119:62 – At midnight I rise to praise you, because of your righteous rules.
Fear, יָרֵא
Ps 119:120 – My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments. Ayin
Be boastful, הָלַל
Ps 119:164 – Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules.
Take, לָקַח
Isa 53:8 – By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
Admonish, יָסַר
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Pasture, רָעָה
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Adjectives Modifying "Justice" (מִשְׁפָּט)
[NEG], אַיִן
Deut 19:6 – lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.
Job 19:7 – Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.
Isa 59:8 – The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.
Isa 59:15 – Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Jer 49:12 – For thus says the LORD: "If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.
First, רִאשֹׁון
Gen 40:13 – In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer.
2 Kgs 17:34 – To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
2 Kgs 17:40 – However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.
This, זֶה
Ex 21:31 – If it gores a man's son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule.
Josh 6:15 – On the seventh day they rose early, at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.
These, אֵהֶל
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Deut 7:12 – "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
Just, צַדִּיק
Deut 4:8 – And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Right, יָשָׁר
Neh 9:13 – You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
Write, כָּתַב
Ps 149:9 – to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the LORD!
Not, הֲלֹא
Prov 16:8 – Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Full produce, מְלֵאָה
Isa 1:21 – How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Predicate Complements of "Justice" (מִשְׁפָּט)
To, for, לְ
Lev 24:22 – You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the LORD your God."
Num 15:16 – One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."
Deut 4:8 – And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Deut 19:6 – lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.
Deut 21:17 – but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
2 Sam 15:4 – Then Absalom would say, "Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice."
2 Sam 22:23 – For all his rules were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.
Ps 18:22 – For all his rules were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.
Ps 119:160 – The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. Sin and Shin
Eccl 8:6 – For there is a time and a way for everything, although man's trouble lies heavy on him.
Isa 26:9 – My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Jer 26:11 – Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, "This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears."
Jer 26:16 – Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."
Jer 32:7 – Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.'
Jer 32:8 – Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the LORD, and said to me, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Ezek 21:27 – A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.
Hos 5:1 – Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.
What, לָמָּה
Deut 6:20 – "When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?'
Judg 13:12 – And Manoah said, "Now when your words come true, what is to be the child's manner of life, and what is his mission?"
2 Kgs 1:7 – He said to them, "What kind of man was he who came to meet you and told you these things?"
In, among, בְּ
1 Chr 16:14 – He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
Ps 105:7 – He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
Isa 59:8 – The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.
Be, הָיָה
Deut 18:3 – And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.
1 Sam 8:11 – He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.
Out of, מִן
Prov 16:33 – The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
Prov 29:26 – Many seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the LORD that a man gets justice.
So, כֵּן
1 Kgs 20:40 – And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." The king of Israel said to him, "So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it."
Like, as, כְּ
Job 29:14 – I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
High place, מָרֹום
Ps 10:5 – His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
Trustworthiness, אֱמֶת
Ps 19:9 – the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
Much, רַב
Ps 36:6 – Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
Primeval ocean, תְּהֹום
Ps 36:6 – Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
Pleasant, טוֹב
Ps 119:39 – Turn away the reproach that I dread, for your rules are good.
Justice, צֶדֶק
Ps 119:75 – I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Right, יָשָׁר
Ps 119:137 – Righteous are you, O LORD, and right are your rules.
Together with, אֵת
Isa 49:4 – But I said, "I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God."
Here, הֵנָּה
Jer 48:47 – Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.
Unto, עַד
Jer 48:47 – Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.
Prepositions with "Justice" (מִשְׁפָּט)
Like, as, כְּ
Gen 40:13 – In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer.
Ex 21:9 – If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.
Ex 21:31 – If it gores a man's son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule.
Ex 26:30 – Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain.
Lev 5:10 – Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the rule. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.
Lev 9:16 – And he presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the rule.
Num 9:3 – On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it."
Num 9:14 – And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native."
Num 15:24 – then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one male goat for a sin offering.
Num 29:18 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:21 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:24 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:27 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:30 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:33 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Num 29:37 – and the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
Josh 6:15 – On the seventh day they rose early, at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.
Judg 18:7 – Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.
1 Kgs 4:28 – Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his duty.
1 Kgs 18:28 – And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.
2 Kgs 11:14 – And when she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, "Treason! Treason!"
2 Kgs 17:33 – So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
2 Kgs 17:34 – To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
2 Kgs 17:40 – However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.
1 Chr 6:32 – They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they performed their service according to their order.
1 Chr 15:13 – Because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule."
1 Chr 23:31 – and whenever burnt offerings were offered to the LORD on Sabbaths, new moons and feast days, according to the number required of them, regularly before the LORD.
1 Chr 24:19 – These had as their appointed duty in their service to come into the house of the LORD according to the procedure established for them by Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
2 Chr 4:7 – And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
2 Chr 4:20 – the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed;
2 Chr 8:14 – According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God had commanded.
2 Chr 30:16 – They took their accustomed posts according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests threw the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites.
2 Chr 35:13 – And they roasted the Passover lamb with fire according to the rule; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people.
Ezra 3:4 – And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required,
Neh 8:18 – And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. They kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule.
Ps 119:132 – Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is your way with those who love your name.
Ps 119:149 – Hear my voice according to your steadfast love; O LORD, according to your justice give me life.
Ps 119:156 – Great is your mercy, O LORD; give me life according to your rules.
Ezek 5:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Ezek 42:11 – with a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors,
In, among, בְּ
Lev 19:15 – "You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Lev 19:35 – "You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
Lev 26:43 – But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.
Num 27:21 – And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation."
Deut 1:17 – You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'
Deut 32:41 – if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
Neh 9:29 – And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.
Job 9:32 – For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
Job 14:3 – And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
Job 22:4 – Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?
Job 34:23 – For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
Ps 1:5 – Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
Ps 25:9 – He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
Ps 72:2 – May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!
Ps 89:30 – If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules,
Ps 112:5 – It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.
Ps 143:2 – Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
Prov 16:10 – An oracle is on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment.
Prov 18:5 – It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.
Prov 24:23 – These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.
Prov 29:4 – By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down.
Eccl 11:9 – Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Eccl 12:14 – For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Isa 1:27 – Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
Isa 3:14 – The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Isa 5:16 – But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jer 10:24 – Correct me, O LORD, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
Jer 17:11 – Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
Ezek 5:6 – And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
Ezek 7:27 – The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 20:16 – because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Ezek 23:24 – And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Ezek 34:16 – I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
Ezek 37:24 – "My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
Ezek 44:24 – In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
To, for, לְ
Num 35:12 – The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
Deut 17:8 – "If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.
Josh 20:6 – And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.'"
Judg 4:5 – She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.
1 Sam 30:25 – And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to this day.
2 Sam 15:2 – And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, "From what city are you?" And when he said, "Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,"
2 Sam 15:6 – Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
1 Kgs 6:38 – And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.
2 Chr 19:8 – Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the LORD and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.
2 Chr 19:10 – whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.
Job 9:19 – If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
Job 35:2 – "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'
Ps 9:7 – But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,
Ps 35:23 – Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord!
Ps 76:9 – when God arose to establish judgment, to save all the humble of the earth. Selah
Ps 119:43 – And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.
Ps 119:91 – By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants.
Ps 122:5 – There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
Isa 5:7 – For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Isa 28:26 – For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.
Isa 32:1 – Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
Isa 34:5 – For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
Isa 41:1 – Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment.
Isa 54:17 – no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD."
Isa 59:11 – We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Hab 1:12 – Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
Mal 3:5 – "Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
Above, עַל
Num 35:24 – then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Deut 17:11 – According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.
Job 34:6 – in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'
Ps 119:62 – At midnight I rise to praise you, because of your righteous rules.
Ps 119:164 – Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules.
Isa 28:6 – and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Jer 30:18 – "Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt on its mound, and the palace shall stand where it used to be.
Out of, מִן
Ps 119:102 – I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me.
Ps 119:120 – My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments. Ayin
Isa 53:8 – By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
Dan 9:5 – we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
To, אֶל
Deut 4:1 – "And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
Ps 119:20 – My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.
Because of, לְמַעַן
Ps 48:11 – Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments!
Ps 97:8 – Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of your judgments, O LORD.
… of "Justice" (מִשְׁפָּט)
Whole, כֹּל
Ex 24:3 – Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do."
Lev 19:37 – And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the LORD."
Lev 20:22 – "You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
Num 9:3 – On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it."
Deut 5:31 – But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.'
2 Sam 22:23 – For all his rules were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.
1 Kgs 6:38 – And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.
2 Chr 33:8 – and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses."
Ps 18:22 – For all his rules were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.
Ps 119:13 – With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
Ps 119:160 – The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. Sin and Shin
Prov 16:33 – The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
Path, אֹרַח
Prov 2:8 – guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
Prov 17:23 – The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.
Isa 26:8 – In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.
Isa 40:14 – Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
Breast-piece, חֹשֶׁן
Ex 28:15 – "You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work. In the style of the ephod you shall make it–of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen shall you make it.
Ex 28:29 – So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment on his heart, when he goes into the Holy Place, to bring them to regular remembrance before the LORD.
Ex 28:30 – And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the LORD. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the LORD regularly.
Regulation, חֻקָּה
Num 27:11 – And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest kinsman of his clan, and he shall possess it. And it shall be for the people of Israel a statute and rule, as the LORD commanded Moses.'"
Num 35:29 – And these things shall be for a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
Word, דָּבָר
Deut 17:9 – And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.
2 Chr 19:6 – and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.
Spirit, wind, רוּחַ
Isa 4:4 – when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.
Isa 28:6 – and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
God/god(s), אֱלֹהִים
Isa 30:18 – Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
Mal 2:17 – You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say, "How have we wearied him?" By saying, "Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them." Or by asking, "Where is the God of justice?"
Offence, חֵטְא
Deut 21:22 – "And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
Porch, אוּלָם
1 Kgs 7:7 – And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment. It was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.
Hate, שָׂנֵא
Job 34:17 – Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
Path, נָתִיב
Prov 8:20 – I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,
Balances, מֹאזְנַיִם
Prov 16:11 – A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Place, מָקֹום
Eccl 3:16 – Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.
Robbing, גֵּזֶל
Eccl 5:8 – If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
Lord, baal, בָּעַל
Isa 50:8 – He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
Goodness, חֶסֶד
Jer 9:24 – but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."
"Justice" (מִשְׁפָּט) of …
I
Lev 18:4 – You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:5 – You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.
Lev 18:26 – But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you
Lev 19:37 – And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the LORD."
Lev 20:22 – "You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
Lev 25:18 – "Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.
Lev 26:15 – if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,
Lev 26:43 – But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.
1 Kgs 6:12 – "Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
1 Kgs 9:4 – And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,
1 Kgs 11:33 – because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.
1 Chr 28:7 – I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'
2 Chr 7:17 – And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,
Job 27:2 – "As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
Job 29:14 – I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.
Job 34:5 – For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
Job 34:6 – in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'
Job 40:8 – Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
Ps 9:4 – For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
Ps 17:2 – From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right!
Ps 35:23 – Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord!
Ps 89:30 – If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules,
Isa 40:27 – Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?
Isa 49:4 – But I said, "I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God."
Isa 50:8 – He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
Isa 51:4 – "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
Jer 1:16 – And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
Lam 3:59 – You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause.
Ezek 5:6 – And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
Ezek 5:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Ezek 11:20 – that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezek 18:9 – walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully–he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 18:17 – withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.
Ezek 20:11 – I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.
Ezek 20:13 – But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
Ezek 20:16 – because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
Ezek 20:19 – I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules,
Ezek 20:21 – But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths."Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezek 20:24 – because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.
Ezek 36:27 – And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Ezek 37:24 – "My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Ezek 44:24 – In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
Mic 7:9 – I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
You
Deut 33:10 – They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
1 Kgs 20:40 – And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." The king of Israel said to him, "So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it."
Neh 9:29 – And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.
Ps 10:5 – His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
Ps 36:6 – Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
Ps 37:6 – He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
Ps 48:11 – Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments!
Ps 72:1 – Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!
Ps 97:8 – Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of your judgments, O LORD.
Ps 119:20 – My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.
Ps 119:30 – I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.
Ps 119:39 – Turn away the reproach that I dread, for your rules are good.
Ps 119:43 – And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.
Ps 119:52 – When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O LORD.
Ps 119:75 – I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Ps 119:91 – By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants.
Ps 119:102 – I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me.
Ps 119:108 – Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O LORD, and teach me your rules.
Ps 119:120 – My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments. Ayin
Ps 119:137 – Righteous are you, O LORD, and right are your rules.
Ps 119:149 – Hear my voice according to your steadfast love; O LORD, according to your justice give me life.
Ps 119:156 – Great is your mercy, O LORD; give me life according to your rules.
Ps 119:175 – Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me.
Isa 26:8 – In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.
Isa 26:9 – My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Dan 9:5 – we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
Hos 6:5 – Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.
Him
Ex 26:30 – Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain.
Num 9:3 – On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it."
Num 9:14 – And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native."
Deut 8:11 – "Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,
Deut 11:1 – "You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.
Deut 26:17 – You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.
Deut 30:16 – If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deut 33:21 – He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a commander's portion was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people, with Israel he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments for Israel."
1 Sam 27:11 – And David would leave neither man nor woman alive to bring news to Gath, thinking, "Lest they should tell about us and say, 'So David has done.'" Such was his custom all the while he lived in the country of the Philistines.
2 Sam 22:23 – For all his rules were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.
1 Kgs 2:3 – and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,
1 Kgs 4:28 – Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his duty.
1 Kgs 6:38 – And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.
1 Kgs 8:58 – that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.
1 Chr 16:14 – He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
Neh 10:29 – join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.
Ps 18:22 – For all his rules were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.
Ps 105:7 – He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
Ps 147:19 – He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel.
Prov 16:33 – The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
Jer 30:18 – "Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt on its mound, and the palace shall stand where it used to be.
Hab 1:7 – They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
Zeph 2:3 – Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.
Zeph 3:5 – The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.
Them
Num 29:6 – besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its grain offering, and the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offering, according to the rule for them, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
Num 29:33 – with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;
1 Kgs 8:45 – then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
1 Kgs 8:49 – then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause
1 Kgs 18:28 – And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.
2 Kgs 17:34 – To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
2 Kgs 17:40 – However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.
1 Chr 6:32 – They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they performed their service according to their order.
1 Chr 24:19 – These had as their appointed duty in their service to come into the house of the LORD according to the procedure established for them by Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
2 Chr 4:7 – And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
2 Chr 6:35 – then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.
2 Chr 6:39 – then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
2 Chr 30:16 – They took their accustomed posts according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests threw the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites.
Jer 49:12 – For thus says the LORD: "If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.
Ezek 7:27 – The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 20:18 – "And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezek 23:24 – And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
Justice, צֶדֶק
Deut 16:18 – "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Ps 119:7 – I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.
Ps 119:62 – At midnight I rise to praise you, because of your righteous rules.
Ps 119:106 – I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to keep your righteous rules.
Ps 119:160 – The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. Sin and Shin
Ps 119:164 – Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules.
Isa 58:2 – Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
God/god(s), אֱלֹהִים
2 Kgs 17:26 – So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."
2 Kgs 17:27 – Then the king of Assyria commanded, "Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him go and dwell there and teach them the law of the god of the land."
Isa 58:2 – Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Jer 5:4 – Then I said, "These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
Jer 5:5 – I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
Death, מָוֶת
Deut 19:6 – lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.
Deut 21:22 – "And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
Jer 26:11 – Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, "This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears."
Jer 26:16 – Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."
Poor, אֶבְיׄון
Ex 23:6 – "You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.
Ps 140:12 – I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.
Jer 5:28 – they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Nation, גֹּוי
2 Kgs 17:33 – So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
Ezek 5:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Mouth, פֶּה
1 Chr 16:12 – Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered,
Ps 105:5 – Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,
Ps 119:13 – With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
Them
Num 27:5 – Moses brought their case before the LORD.
Ezek 42:11 – with a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors,
Widow, אַלְמָנָה
Deut 10:18 – He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Deut 27:19 – "'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Priest, כֹּהֵן
Deut 18:3 – And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.
1 Sam 2:13 – The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand,
Sojourner, גֵּר
Deut 24:17 – "You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge,
Deut 27:19 – "'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
King, מֶלֶךְ
1 Sam 8:9 – Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them."
1 Sam 8:11 – He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.
Servant, עֶבֶד
1 Kgs 8:59 – Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,
Job 31:13 – "If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me,
Man, אִישׁ
2 Kgs 1:7 – He said to them, "What kind of man was he who came to meet you and told you these things?"
Prov 29:26 – Many seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the LORD that a man gets justice.
Humble, עָנִי
Job 36:6 – He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.
Isa 10:2 – to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
YHWH, יהוה
Ps 19:9 – the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
Jer 8:7 – Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the LORD.
Commit adultery, נָאַף
Ezek 16:38 – And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Trustworthiness, אֱמֶת
Ezek 18:8 – does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,
Zech 7:9 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Daughter, בַּת
Ex 21:9 – If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.
Son, בֵּן
Ex 28:30 – And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the LORD. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the LORD regularly.
One, אֶחָד
Lev 24:22 – You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the LORD your God."
[oracle device], אוּר
Num 27:21 – And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation."
Orphan, יָתֹום
Deut 10:18 – He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Right of first-born, בְּכֹרָה
Deut 21:17 – but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
Boy, נַעַר
Judg 13:12 – And Manoah said, "Now when your words come true, what is to be the child's manner of life, and what is his mission?"
Sidonian, צִידֹנִי
Judg 18:7 – Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.
Kingship, מְלוּכָה
1 Sam 10:25 – Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the LORD. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.
People, עַם
1 Kgs 8:59 – Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,
David, דָּוִד
2 Chr 8:14 – According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God had commanded.
YHWH, יהוה
2 Chr 19:8 – Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the LORD and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.
Word, דָּבָר
Ezra 3:4 – And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required,
Handmaid, אָמָה
Job 31:13 – "If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me,
Right of buying back, גְּאֻלָּה
Jer 32:7 – Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.'
Possession, יְרֻשָּׁה
Jer 32:8 – Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the LORD, and said to me, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Moab, מֹואָב
Jer 48:47 – Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.
Her
Jer 51:9 – We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.
Vigorous man, גֶּבֶר
Lam 3:35 – to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High,
Blood, דָּם
Ezek 7:23 – "Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
Pour, שֶׂפֶק
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
You
Zeph 3:15 – The LORD has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil.
Peace, שָׁלֹום
Zech 8:16 – These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
… and "Justice" (מִשְׁפָּט)
Portion, חֹק
Ex 15:25 – And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,
Lev 26:46 – These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between him and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.
Deut 4:1 – "And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deut 4:5 – See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deut 4:8 – And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Deut 4:14 – And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.
Deut 4:45 – These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
Deut 5:1 – And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.
Deut 5:31 – But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.'
Deut 6:1 – "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,
Deut 6:20 – "When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?'
Deut 7:11 – You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
Deut 11:32 – you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
Deut 12:1 – "These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
Deut 26:16 – "This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deut 26:17 – You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.
Josh 24:25 – So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem.
1 Sam 30:25 – And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to this day.
1 Kgs 8:58 – that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.
1 Kgs 9:4 – And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,
2 Kgs 17:37 – And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,
1 Chr 22:13 – Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.
2 Chr 7:17 – And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,
2 Chr 19:10 – whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.
2 Chr 33:8 – and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses."
Ezra 7:10 – For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
Neh 1:7 – We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.
Ps 147:19 – He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel.
Mal 4:4 – "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
Regulation, חֻקָּה
Lev 18:5 – You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.
Lev 18:26 – But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you
Lev 19:37 – And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the LORD."
Lev 20:22 – "You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
Num 9:3 – On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it."
Num 9:14 – And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native."
Deut 11:1 – "You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.
Deut 30:16 – If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
1 Kgs 2:3 – and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,
1 Kgs 11:33 – because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.
2 Kgs 17:34 – To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
Commandment, מִצְוָה
Num 36:13 – These are the commandments and the rules that the LORD commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Deut 8:11 – "Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,
Deut 26:17 – You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.
Deut 30:16 – If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
1 Kgs 8:58 – that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.
1 Chr 28:7 – I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'
Dan 9:5 – we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.
Whole, כֹּל
Ex 24:3 – Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do."
Lev 19:37 – And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the LORD."
Lev 20:22 – "You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
Num 9:3 – On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it."
Deut 11:32 – you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.
1 Kgs 6:38 – And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.
Justice, צֶדֶק
Ps 89:14 – Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
Ps 97:2 – Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Prov 1:3 – to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
Prov 2:9 – Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Justice, צְדָקָה
Gen 18:19 – For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
Ps 33:5 – He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.
Prov 21:3 – To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Trustworthiness, אֱמֶת
Ps 111:7 – The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy;
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Zech 8:16 – These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;
Word, דָּבָר
Ex 24:3 – Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do."
1 Kgs 6:38 – And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.
Justice, מִשְׁפָּט
1 Kgs 8:59 – Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Sign, מֹופֵת
1 Chr 16:12 – Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered,
Ps 105:5 – Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,
Goodness, חֶסֶד
Ps 101:1 – I will sing of steadfast love and justice; to you, O LORD, I will make music.
Hos 12:6 – "So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."
Time, עֵת
Eccl 8:5 – Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.
Eccl 8:6 – For there is a time and a way for everything, although man's trouble lies heavy on him.
Instruction, תֹּורָה
Num 15:16 – One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."
Testimonies, עֵדָה
Deut 4:45 – These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
Law-case, רִיב
2 Sam 15:4 – Then Absalom would say, "Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice."
Claim, דִּין
Job 36:17 – "But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
Restraint, עֹצֶר
Isa 53:8 – By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
"Justice" (מִשְׁפָּט) and …
Justice, צְדָקָה
2 Sam 8:15 – So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.
1 Kgs 10:9 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
1 Chr 18:14 – So David reigned over all Israel, and he administered justice and equity to all his people.
2 Chr 9:8 – Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness."
Ps 99:4 – The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Isa 9:7 – Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Isa 33:5 – The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jer 22:3 – Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Jer 22:15 – Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
Jer 23:5 – "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jer 33:15 – In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Ezek 18:5 – "If a man is righteous and does what is just and right–
Ezek 18:19 – "Yet you say, 'Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?' When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.
Ezek 18:21 – "But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Ezek 18:27 – Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.
Ezek 33:14 – Again, though I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right,
Ezek 33:16 – None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.
Ezek 33:19 – And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by them.
Ezek 45:9 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.
Instruction, תֹּורָה
Lev 26:46 – These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between him and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.
2 Kgs 17:34 – To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
2 Kgs 17:37 – And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,
Neh 9:13 – You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
Commandment, מִצְוָה
Deut 11:1 – "You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.
Neh 9:13 – You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
Justice, מִשְׁפָּט
1 Kgs 8:59 – Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,
Ezek 23:45 – But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."
Portion, חֹק
Neh 9:13 – You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
Neh 10:29 – join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.
Regulation, חֻקָּה
Deut 8:11 – "Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,
Deed, מַעֲשֶׂה
Judg 13:12 – And Manoah said, "Now when your words come true, what is to be the child's manner of life, and what is his mission?"
Reminder, עֵדוּת
1 Kgs 2:3 – and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,
Law-case, רִיב
2 Chr 19:8 – Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the LORD and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.
Multitude, רֹב
Job 37:23 – The Almighty–we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
Claim, דִּין
Ps 9:4 – For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.
Justice, צֶדֶק
Ps 119:121 – I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.
Uprightness, מֵישָׁרִים
Prov 1:3 – to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
Pour, שֶׂפֶק
Ezek 16:38 – And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Opening, פֶּתַח
Ezek 42:11 – with a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors,
Goodness, חֶסֶד
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Strength, גְּבוּרָה
Mic 3:8 – But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
Swelling, שְׂאֵת
Hab 1:7 – They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
"Justice" (מִשְׁפָּט) as Adjunct of …
Libation, נֶסֶךְ
Num 29:6 – besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its grain offering, and the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offering, according to the rule for them, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
Adjunct of "Justice" (מִשְׁפָּט)
One, אֶחָד
Num 15:16 – One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you."
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