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Genesis 35:8
Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth. (niv)
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Exodus 18:26
They served as judges for the people at all times. The difficult cases they brought to Moses, but the simple ones they decided themselves. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 17:8-12
If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge— whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults— take them to the place the Lord your God will choose.Go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office at that time. Inquire of them and they will give you the verdict.You must act according to the decisions they give you at the place the Lord will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you to do.Act according to whatever they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.Anyone who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the Lord your God is to be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel. (niv)
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1 Samuel 6 16-1 Samuel 6 17
The five rulers of the Philistines saw all this and then returned that same day to Ekron.These are the gold tumors the Philistines sent as a guilt offering to the Lord— one each for Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron. (niv)
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1 Samuel 1 1
There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. (niv)
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Exodus 18:16
Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me, and I decide between the parties and inform them of God’s decrees and instructions.” (niv)
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Exodus 18:13
The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood around him from morning till evening. (niv)
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Joshua 16:2
It went on from Bethel( that is, Luz), crossed over to the territory of the Arkites in Ataroth, (niv)
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Exodus 18:19
Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people’s representative before God and bring their disputes to him. (niv)
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1 Samuel 1 19
Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the Lord and then went back to their home at Ramah. Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her. (niv)
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Joshua 18:25
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, (niv)
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Joshua 18:22
Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, (niv)
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1 Samuel 25 1
Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran. (niv)
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2 Samuel 15 2-2 Samuel 15 6
He would get up early and stand by the side of the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone came with a complaint to be placed before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out to him,“ What town are you from?” He would answer,“ Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”Then Absalom would say to him,“ Look, your claims are valid and proper, but there is no representative of the king to hear you.”And Absalom would add,“ If only I were appointed judge in the land! Then everyone who has a complaint or case could come to me and I would see that they receive justice.”Also, whenever anyone approached him to bow down before him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him.Absalom behaved in this way toward all the Israelites who came to the king asking for justice, and so he stole the hearts of the people of Israel. (niv)
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Jeremiah 31:15
This is what the Lord says:“ A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” (niv)