Deuteronomy 16:18-19

MKJV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁸ You shall appoint judges and officers for yourself in all your gates which Jehovah your God gives you, tribe by tribe. And they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. ¹⁹ You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not respect persons, nor take a gift. For a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

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Judges.
Deuteronomy 1:15-17; Deuteronomy 17:9; Deuteronomy 17:12; Deuteronomy 19:17; Deuteronomy 19:18; Deuteronomy 21:2; Exodus 18:25; Exodus 18:26; Exodus 21:6; 1 Chronicles 23:4; 1 Chronicles 26:29
2 Chronicles 19:5-11; Psalms 82:2; Psalms 82:3; Romans 13:1-6
in all thy gates.This expression may refer to the gate of the city, as the forum or place of public concourse among the Israelites, where a court of judicature was held, to try all causes and decide all affairs. The same practice obtained among other Eastern nations. The Ottoman court, it is well known, derived its appellation of the {Porte,} from the distribution of justice and the dispatch of public business at its gates. And the square tower which forms the principal entrance to the Alhamra, or red palace of the Moorish kings of Grenada, retains to this day the appellation of the Gate of judgment, from its having been the place where justice was at one period summarily administered.