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Judges

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Hebrew H430 ʼĕlôhîym

Original: אֱלֹהִים

Meaning:
plural of אֱלוֹהַּ; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative; angels, [idiom] exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), [idiom] (very) great, judges, [idiom] mighty.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: angels, [idiom] exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), [idiom] (very) great, judges, [idiom] mighty.

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^{Exodus 21:6} Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever. Open

^{Exodus 21:22} If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. Open

^{Exodus 22:8} If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbor's goods. Open

^{Exodus 22:9} For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbor. Open

^{Numbers 25:5} And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor. Open

^{Deuteronomy 1:16} And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Open

^{Deuteronomy 16:18} Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. Open

^{Deuteronomy 19:17} Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; Open

^{Deuteronomy 19:18} And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; Open

^{Deuteronomy 21:2} Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: Open

^{Deuteronomy 25:1} If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. Open

^{Deuteronomy 32:31} For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. Open

^{Joshua 8:33} And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. Open

^{Joshua 23:2} And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age: Open

^{Joshua 24:1} And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. Open

^{Judges 2:16} Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. Open

^{Judges 2:17} And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so. Open

^{Judges 2:18} And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. Open

^{Ruth 1:1} Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. Open

^{1 Samuel 8:1} And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. Open

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^{1 Samuel 8:2} Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba. Open

^{2 Samuel 7:11} And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house. Open

^{2 Kings 23:22} Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; Open

^{1 Chronicles 17:6} Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars? Open

^{1 Chronicles 17:10} And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house. Open

^{1 Chronicles 23:4} Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges: Open

^{1 Chronicles 26:29} Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges. Open

^{2 Chronicles 1:2} Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers. Open

^{2 Chronicles 19:5} And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city, Open

^{2 Chronicles 19:6} And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment. Open

^{Ezra 7:25} And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not. Open

^{Ezra 10:14} Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us. Open

^{Job 9:24} The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he? Open

^{Job 12:17} He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. Open

^{Job 31:11} For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. Open

^{Psalm 2:10} Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Open

^{Psalm 141:6} When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet. Open

^{Psalm 148:11} Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth: Open

^{Proverbs 8:16} By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. Open

^{Isaiah 1:26} And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. Open

^{Isaiah 40:23} That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. Open

^{Daniel 3:2} Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. Open

^{Daniel 3:3} Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. Open

^{Daniel 9:12} And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. Open

^{Hosea 7:7} They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. Open

^{Hosea 13:10} I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? Open

^{Zephaniah 3:3} Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. Open

^{Matthew 12:27} And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges. Open

^{Luke 11:19} And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges. Open

^{Acts 13:20} And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. Open

^{James 2:4} Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? Open

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