Deut 16:18

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Judges.

Deut 1:15-17; Deut 17:9; Deut 17:12; Deut 19:17; Deut 19:18; Deut 21:2; Exod 18:25; Exod 18:26; Exod 21:6; 1Chr 23:4; 1Chr 26:29

2Chr 19:5-11; Ps 82:2; Ps 82:3; Rom 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.