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Genesis 35:8
( Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named Oak of Weeping.)
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Exodus 18:26
They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.
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Deuteronomy 17:8-12
If a matter is too difficult for you to judge– bloodshed, legal claim, or assault– matters of controversy in your villages– you must leave there and go up to the place the LORD your God chooses.You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.You must then do as they have determined at that place the LORD chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.You must do what you are instructed, and the verdict they pronounce to you, without fail. Do not deviate right or left from what they tell you.The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the LORD your God there, or to the verdict– that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.
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1 Samuel 6 16-1 Samuel 6 17
The five leaders of the Philistines watched what was happening and then returned to Ekron on the same day.These are the gold sores that the Philistines brought as a guilt offering to the LORD– one for each of the following cities: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.
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1 Samuel 1 1
There was a man from Ramathaim Zophim, from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
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Exodus 18:16
When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws.”
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Exodus 18:13
On the next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.
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Joshua 16:2
The southern border extended from Bethel to Luz, and crossed to Arkite territory at Ataroth.
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Exodus 18:19
Now listen to me, I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God, and you bring their disputes to God;
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1 Samuel 1 19
They got up early the next morning and after worshiping the LORD, they returned to their home at Ramah. Elkanah had marital relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.
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Joshua 18:25
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
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Joshua 18:22
Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
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1 Samuel 25 1
Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David left and went down to the desert of Paran.
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2 Samuel 15 2-2 Samuel 15 6
Now Absalom used to get up early and stand beside the road that led to the city gate. Whenever anyone came by who had a complaint to bring to the king for arbitration, Absalom would call out to him,“ What city are you from?” The person would answer,“ I, your servant, am from one of the tribes of Israel.”Absalom would then say to him,“ Look, your claims are legitimate and appropriate. But there is no representative of the king who will listen to you.”Absalom would then say,“ If only they would make me a judge in the land! Then everyone who had a judicial complaint could come to me and I would make sure he receives a just settlement.”When someone approached to bow before him, Absalom would extend his hand and embrace him and kiss him.Absalom acted this way toward everyone in Israel who came to the king for justice. In this way Absalom won the loyalty of the citizens of Israel.
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Jeremiah 31:15
The LORD says,“ A sound is heard in Ramah, a sound of crying in bitter grief. It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone.”