2 Chronicles 19:8

19:8 In Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed some Levites, priests, and Israelite family leaders to judge on behalf of the Lord15 and to settle disputes among the residents of Jerusalem.16

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15	tn Heb “for the judgment of the Lord.”
16	tc Heb “and to conduct a case [or “for controversy”], and they returned [to] Jerusalem.” Some emend וַיָּשֻׁבוּ (vayyashuvu, “and they returned”) to וַיֵּשְׁבוּ (vayyeshévu, “and they lived [in]”). The present translation assumes an emendation to יֹשְׁבֵי (yoshévey, “residents of”).