Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Deuteronomy 16:18

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Judges: Deu 1:15-17, Deu 17:9, Deu 17:12, Deu 19:17, Deu 19:18, Deu 21:2; Exo 18:25, Exo 18:26, Exo 21:6; Ch1 23:4, Ch1 26:29; Ch2 19:5-11; Psa 82:2, Psa 82:3; Rom 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. Deuteronomy 16:19

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