Court: Justice Required of

You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.

And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.

You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits. …

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.

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.”

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.

He appointed judges in the land, in each of the fortified cities of Judah. …