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And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

19:5 judges in the land. Jehoshaphat established the system of judges and appeal procedures (II Chronicles 19:5-11), by which secular appointees of the king judged civil matters and by which the priest, under the chief priest, judged religious matters. This system became a model for later governments in Judaism.


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