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Deuteronomy 15:17
then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.
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Leviticus 25:40
As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.
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1 Samuel 28 2
So David said to Achish,“ Surely you know what your servant can do.” And Achish said to David,“ Therefore I will make you one of my chief guardians forever.”
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Deuteronomy 19:17-18
then both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days.And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother,
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Numbers 25:5-8
So Moses said to the judges of Israel,“ Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal of Peor.”And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.Now when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand;and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.
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Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes in her midst are roaring lions; Her judges are evening wolves That leave not a bone till morning.
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Leviticus 25:23
‘ The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me.
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Exodus 21:22
“ If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman’s husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
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1 Samuel 27 12
So Achish believed David, saying,“ He has made his people Israel utterly abhor him; therefore he will be my servant forever.”
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Exodus 12:12
‘ For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.
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1 Kings 12 7
And they spoke to him, saying,“ If you will be a servant to these people today, and serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”
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Exodus 22:8-9
If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbor’s goods.“ For any kind of trespass, whether it concerns an ox, a donkey, a sheep, or clothing, or for any kind of lost thing which another claims to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whomever the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.
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Deuteronomy 16:18
“ You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
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Exodus 22:28
“ You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
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1 Samuel 8 1-1 Samuel 8 2
Now it came to pass when Samuel was old that he made his sons judges over Israel.The name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba.
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Deuteronomy 1:16
“ Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying,‘ Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him.
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1 Samuel 1 22
But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband,“ Not until the child is weaned; then I will take him, that he may appear before the Lord and remain there forever.”
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Exodus 18:21-26
Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they themselves shall judge. So it will be easier for you, for they will bear the burden with you.If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will also go to their place in peace.”So Moses heeded the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people: rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.So they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but they judged every small case themselves.
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Psalms 40:6-8
Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.Then I said,“ Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book it is written of me.I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart.”
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Isaiah 1:26
I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”