* Judges.
  1:15-17  17:9,12  19:17,18  21:2  Ex 18:25,26  21:6  1Ch 23:4  26:29 
  2Ch 19:5-11  Ps 82:2,3  Ro 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.