Courts of Justice: Inferior Court: Held at the Gates

So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:

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.

…his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,

His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.