Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 16:18
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Deuteronomy16:18
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 judgement.
Chief Magistrates to examine and determine causes and differences.
Who were inferiour and subordinate to the other to bring causes and persons before them, to acquaint people with the mind and sentence of the Judges, and to execute their sentence. See Deut. 20. 5, 9. Ios. 1. 10, 11. and 3. 2, 3.
(i. e.) Thy Cities, which he here calls gates, because there were seats of judgment set. Compare 1 Chron. 23. 4.
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