Text: 2 Chronicles 19:8
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 1:17
Subject: judicial accountability
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Moses's charge that difficult cases be brought to him for adjudication finds institutional expression when Jehoshaphat appoints Levites, priests, and heads of families in Jerusalem to serve as a central court. Both passages address the same structural problem—the need for higher judicial authority when local judges face cases beyond their competence. Jehoshaphat's court functions as the monarchic implementation of the Deuteronomic principle that judgment ultimately belongs to God (הַמִּשְׁפָּט לֵאלֹהִים, hammishpat le'lohim), mediated through designated human representatives.