Quotes about Trial

If the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges to determine whether he has taken his neighbor’s property.

You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.

If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.

He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. Then the manslayer may return to his own home in the city from which he fled.”

These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.

These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.

So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.

For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.