5And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,
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Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. …
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. …
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; …
Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-11)Jehoshaphat, having done what he could to make his people good, is here providing, if possible, to keep them so by the influence of a settled magistracy. He had sent preachers among them, to instruct them (2 Chron. 17:7-9), and that provision did well; but now he saw it further requisite to send judges among them, to see the laws put in execution, and to be a terror to evil-doers. It is probable t…
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