Magistrates: should Judge Righteously

At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.

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.

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.