2 Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are all around him that is slain:
Deuteronomy 21:2 Cross References - TKJU
Deuteronomy 16:18-19
18 Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: And they shall judge the people with just judgment.
19 You shall not wrest judgment; you shall not respect persons, neither take a gift: For a gift does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Romans 13:3-4
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Do you then desire not to be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and you shall have praise from the same:
4 For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain: For he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil.