申命记 17:9

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

去見利未支派的祭司和當時的審判官，詢問他們，他們就必指示你們怎樣判斷這案件。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
去 见 祭 司 利 未 人 ， 并 当 时 的 审 判 官 ， 求 问 他 们 ， 他 们 必 将 判 语 指 示 你 。

Contextual Overview

⁸ Some cases that come before you, such as murder, quarreling, or attack, may be too difficult to judge. Take these cases to the place the Lord your God will choose. ⁹ Go to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who is on duty at that time. Ask them about the case, and they will decide. ¹⁰ You must follow the decision they give you at the place the Lord your God will choose. Be careful to do everything they tell you. ¹¹ Follow the teachings they give you, and do whatever they decide, exactly as they tell you. ¹² The person who does not show respect for the judge or priest who is there serving the Lord your God must be put to death. You must get rid of that evil from Israel. ¹³ Then everyone will hear about this and will be afraid, and they will not show disrespect anymore.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the priests: Jeremiah 18:18, Haggai 2:11, Malachi 2:7

they shall: Deuteronomy 19:17-21, Ezekiel 44:24

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:22 - great Leviticus 13:2 - he shall Deuteronomy 16:18 - Judges Deuteronomy 25:1 - General Deuteronomy 33:10 - They shall teach Ezra 10:14 - our rulers Nehemiah 11:1 - the rulers Job 31:28 - an Zechariah 7:3 - speak Matthew 21:33 - husbandmen Matthew 23:3 - whatsoever John 1:19 - when John 8:11 - Neither

Cross-References

Genesis 17:4
"I am making my agreement with you: I will make you the father of many nations.

Genesis 17:5
I am changing your name from Abram to Abraham because I am making you a father of many nations.

Psalms 25:10
All the Lord 's ways are loving and true for those who follow the demands of his agreement.

Psalms 103:18
and to those who keep his agreement and who remember to obey his orders.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt come unto the priests, the Levites,.... The priests that are of the tribe of Levi, as the Targum of Jonathan, and so Jarchi; for Aben Ezra says there are priests that are not of the genealogy of Levi; such there were indeed in Jeroboam's time, 1 Kings 12:31. Maimonides f observes, that it is ordered that there should be in the great sanhedrim priests and Levites, as it is said: "and thou shalt come unto the priests, and the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire"; judge is here put for judges, of which the great court consisted, being priests, Levites, and Israelites;

1 Kings 12:31- :, though others think that only a single person is meant, such as Othniel, Ehud, Gideon, Samson, c. but then as there was not always such an one in being, I should rather think that the judge here, if a single person, is the president or prince of the great sanhedrim, who succeeded Moses, and sat in his place and of him and his court, the priests, and Levites and Israelites that composed it, inquiry was to be made:

and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment; give their judgment in the difficult case proposed, and declare what is right to be done, and what sentence is to be pronounced.

f Hilchot Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The cases in question are such as the inferior judges did not feel able to decide satisfactorily, and which accordingly they remitted to their superiors (compare Exodus 18:23-27).

The Supreme court Deuteronomy 17:9 is referred to in very general terms as sitting at the sanctuary Deuteronomy 17:8. “The judge” would no doubt usually be a layman, and thus the court would contain both an ecclesiastical and a civil element. Jehoshaphat 2 Chronicles 19:4-11 organized his judicial system very closely upon the lines here laid down.