# Justice H4941 List ## Noteworthy - Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?” {Genesis 18.25} - You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly. {Leviticus 19.15} - Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death. You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God. {Leviticus 24.21-22} - If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you. {Leviticus 26.14-17} - For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes. {Leviticus 26.43} - The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you. {Numbers 15.16} ## Background - I am doing a ([[Justice_Study]]) and came across this Hebrew word - Strong's Number [[H4941]] occurs 424 times in 406 verses in 31 of the 39 OT books. It is unlikely I will "study" all of them, so I thought a "summary" would be a good start. - The verses below are listed without any context or commentary. Some of them are difficult to understand without its context. That notwithstanding, hopefully this will give me a big-picture view of OT Justice. - All the verses are from the Berean Study Bible (BSB). However, https://biblehub.com does not list all the verses, so the source for the list is https://www.blueletterbible.org/ ## Summary of Verses by Book - Genesis - 3 - Exodus - 11 - Leviticus - 14 - Numbers - 19 - Deuteronomy - 37 - Joshua - 3 - Judges - 3 - 1 Samuel - 7 - 2 Samuel - 6 - 1 Kings - 19 - 2 Kings - 11 - 1 Chronicles - 9 - 2 Chronicles - 13 - Ezra - 2 - Nehemiah - 5 - Job - 23 - Psalms - 65 - Proverbs - 20 - Ecclesiastes - 6 - Isaiah - 42 - Jeremiah - 32 - Lamentations - 2 - Ezekiel - 43 - Daniel - 1 - Hosea - 6 - Amos - 4 - Micah- 5 - Habakkuk - 6 - Zepheniah - 4 - Zechariah - 2 - Malachi - 3 ## Book-by-Book Verses ### Genesis - For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.” {Genesis 18.19} - Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?” {Genesis 18.25} - Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer. {Genesis 40.13} - And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them, saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.” {Exodus 15.25-26} - “These are the ordinances that you are to set before them: {Exodus 21.1} - And if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her as with a daughter. {Exodus 21.9} - If the ox gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule. {Exodus 21.31} - You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits. {Exodus 23.6} - When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.” {Exodus 24.3} - So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain. {Exodus 26.30} - You are also to make a breastpiece of judgment with the same workmanship as the ephod. Construct it with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen. {Exodus 28.15} - Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he shall bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart on the breastpiece of judgment, as a continual reminder before the LORD. And place the Urim and Thummimc in the breastpiece of judgment, so that they will also be over Aaron’s heart whenever he comes before the LORD. Aaron will continually carry the judgment of the sons of Israel over his heart before the LORD. {Exodus 28.29-30} - And the priest must prepare the second bird as a burnt offering according to the ordinance. In this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven. {Leviticus 5.10} - He presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the ordinance. {Leviticus 9.16} - You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God. Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them.a I am the LORD. {Leviticus 18.4-5} - But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations — neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you. {Leviticus 18.26} - You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly. {Leviticus 19.15} - You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume. {Leviticus 19.35} - You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD. {Leviticus 19.37} - You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out. {Leviticus 20.22} - Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death. You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God. {Leviticus 24.21-22} - You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land. {Leviticus 25.18} - If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you. {Leviticus 26.14-17} - For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes. {Leviticus 26.43} - These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai. {Leviticus 26.46} - You are to observe it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with its statutes and ordinances. {Numbers 9.3} - If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land. {Numbers 9.14} - The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you. {Numbers 15.16} - Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses— all that the LORD has commanded you through Moses from the day the LORD gave them and continuing through the generations to come— and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin offering. {Numbers 15.22-24} - So Moses brought their case before the LORD {Numbers 27.5} - And if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the next of kin from his clan, that he may take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites, as the LORD has commanded Moses. {Numbers 27.11} - He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who will seek counsel for him before the LORD by the judgment of the Urim. At his command, he and all the Israelites with him—the entire congregation—will go out and come in. {Numbers 27.21} - These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. {Numbers 29.6} - On the second day you are to present twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished, along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed. {Numbers 29.17-18} - along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed. {Numbers 29.21} - along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed. {Numbers 29.24} - along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed. {Numbers 29.27} - along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed. {Numbers 29.30} - along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed. {Numbers 29.33} - along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed. {Numbers 29.37} - You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly. {Numbers 35.12} - then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances. {Numbers 5.24} - This will be a statutory ordinance for you for the generations to come, wherever you live. {Numbers 35.29} - These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho. {Numbers 36.13} - Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.” {Deuteronomy 1.17} - Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you. {Deuteronomy 4.1} - See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess. Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” {Deuteronomy 4.5-6} - For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him? And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today? {Deuteronomy 4.7-8} - At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. {Deuteronomy 4.14} - This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites. These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt, {Deuteronomy 4.44-45} - Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully. {Deuteronomy 5.1} - But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess. {Deuteronomy 5.31} - These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess, so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged. {Deuteronomy 6.1} - In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?” {Deuteronomy 6.20} - So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day. If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers. {Deuteronomy 7.11-12} - Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day. {Deuteronomy 8.11} - For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe. He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing. So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt. {Deuteronomy 10.17-19} - You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. {Deuteronomy 11.1} - be careful to follow all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today. {Deuteronomy 11.32} - These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess. {Deuteronomy 12.1} - You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment. Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. {Deuteronomy 16.18-20} - If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose. You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and they will give you a verdict in the case. {Deuteronomy 17.8-9} - You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you, according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you. {Deuteronomy 17.10-11} - This shall be the priests’ share (H4941) from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach. {Deuteronomy 18.3} - Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in a rage, overtake him if the distance is great, and strike him dead though he did not deserve (H4941) to die, since he did not intend any harm. {Deuteronomy 19.6} - Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father’s strength; the right (H4941) of the firstborn belongs to him. {Deuteronomy 21.17} - If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed (H4941, and you hang his body on a tree, you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. {Deuteronomy 21.22-23a} - Do not deny justice (H4941) to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security. {Deuteronomy 24.17} - If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned. If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants. {Deuteronomy 25.1-2} - The LORD your God commands you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. You must be careful to follow them with all your heart and with all your soul. Today you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandments and ordinances, and listen to His voice. {Deuteronomy 26.16-17} - ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’ {Deuteronomy 27.19} - For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess. {Deuteronomy 30.16} - For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God! He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He. {Deuteronomy 32.3-4} - See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand. For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever, when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me. I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh— the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.” {Deuteronomy 32.39-42} - He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant. He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar. {Deuteronomy 33.9-10} - Concerning Gad he said: “Blessed is he who enlarges the domain of Gad! He lies down like a lion and tears off an arm or a head. He chose the best land for himself, because a ruler’s portion was reserved for him there. He came with the leaders of the people; he administered the LORD’s justice (H6666) and His ordinances (H4941) for Israel.” {Deuteronomy 33.20-21} - Then on the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same manner (H4941). That was the only day they circled the city seven times. {Joshua 6.15} - He is to stay in that city until he stands trial (H4941) before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. {Joshua 20.6} - On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance (H4941). {Joshua 24.25} - Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. {Judges 4.5} - Then Manoah asked, “When your words come to pass, what will be the boy’s rule of life and mission?” {Judges 13.12} - So the five men departed and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living securely, like the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive ruler. And they were far away from the Sidonians and had no alliance with anyone. {Judges 18.7} - Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD or for the custom (H4941) of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. {1 Samuel 2.12-14} - When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel. The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second was Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba. But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice (H4941). {1 Samuel 8.1-3} - Now listen to their voice; but you must solemnly warn them and show them the manner (H4941) of the king who will reign over them.” {1 Samuel 8.9} - He said, “This will be the manner (H4941) of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them to serve his own chariots and horses, and to run in front of his chariots. {1 Samuel 8.11} - Then Samuel explained to the people the rights (H4941) of kingship. He wrote them on a scroll and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, each to his own home. {1 Samuel 10.25} - David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, “Otherwise they will report us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” And this was David’s custom (H4941) the whole time he lived in Philistine territory. {1 Samuel 27.11} - And so it has been from that day forward. David established this statute and ordinance {H4941} for Israel to this very day. {1 Samuel 30.25} ### 2 Samuel - Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice (H4941) and righteousness for all his people {2 Samuel 8.15} - He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for a decision (H4941), Absalom would call out and ask, “What city are you from?” And if he replied, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,” Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.” {2 Samuel 15.2-3} - And he would add, “If only someone would appoint me judge (H8199) in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute (H4941) could come to me, and I would give him justice (H6663).” {2 Samuel 15.4} - Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice (H4941). In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel. {2 Samuel 15.6} - For all His ordinances are (H4941) before me; I have not disregarded His statutes (H2708). {2 Samuel 22.23} - - ### Ecclesiastes - Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment (H4941) there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness. I said in my heart, “God will judge (H8199) the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.” {Ecclesiastes 3.16-17} - If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice (H4941) and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them. {Ecclesiastes 5.8} - Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure (H4941). For there is a right time and procedure (H4941) to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him. {Ecclesiastes 8.5-6} - Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment (H4941). {Ecclesiastes 11.9} - When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment (H4941), along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil. {Ecclesiastes 12.13-14}