TSK · Deuteronomy 17:8

They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.

“If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

Laws about Animals“If an ox gores a man or a woman so that either dies, then the ox must surely be stoned and its flesh must not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.

you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.

The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.

But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

for you may do so only in the place the LORD chooses in one of your tribal areas– there you may do everything I am commanding you.

You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

Then the Levitical priests will approach(for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name, and to decide every judicial verdict)

Solomon Demonstrates His Wisdom Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

In Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed some Levites, priests, and Israelite family leaders to judge on behalf of the LORD and to settle disputes among the residents of Jerusalem.

Indeed, the leaders sit there on thrones and make legal decisions, on the thrones of the house of David.

For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him because he is the messenger of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.