Dictionary of Bible Themes: 5270 court

5270 court

Dictionary of Bible Themes

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Usually, a legal body dispensing justice, but the word may also refer to a royal court, the original function of which was the dispensation of justice by the monarch.

Courts of law

Provision for and procedures of courts

Exodus 18:25-26; Deuteronomy 1:15-17; Deuteronomy 17:9; Ruth 4:2-5; 1 Chronicles 26:29; 2 Chronicles 19:8-11

Justice dispensed by the court

Deuteronomy 25:1 See also Job 11:10; Amos 5:15; Zechariah 8:16-17

Disputes settled in court

Judges 4:4-5 See also Exodus 21:22; Job 5:4; Job 9:32-35; Proverbs 25:7-8; Proverbs 29:9; Matthew 5:25-26 pp Luke 12:58-59; Acts 18:12-17; Acts 19:38-39; Acts 25:1-26:27

Provision for a court of appeal

Deuteronomy 17:8-13

Corruption in the court

Proverbs 22:22-23 See also Exodus 23:1-3,6-8; Job 31:21-22; Isaiah 29:20-21; Amos 5:7-15; James 2:6

The divine lawcourt

Daniel 7:9-10 See also Isaiah 3:13-17; Daniel 7:23-27; 1 Corinthians 4:2-5

Royal courts

Egyptian

Genesis 50:4-7

Israelite

Jeremiah 29:2 See also 1 Kings 3:15; Jeremiah 34:19-20; Jeremiah 41:16

Babylonian

Daniel 2:48-49 See also Daniel 1:3-5

Persian

Esther 4:11 See also Esther 5:1-2

The divine courts

Psalm 84:10 See also Psalm 65:4; Psalm 84:1-2; Psalm 92:12-13; Psalm 96:8; Psalm 100:4