SEV Biblia, Chapter 17:9
y vendrás a los sacerdotes levitas, y al juez que fuere en aquellos días, y preguntarás; y te enseñarán la palabra del juicio.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 9. Thou shalt come unto the priests, the Levites , etc.] The priests that are of the tribe of Levi, as the Targum of Jonathan, and so Jarchi; for Aben Ezra says there are priests that are not of the genealogy of Levi; such there were indeed in Jeroboam’s time, ( 1 Kings 12:31 13:33). Maimonides f190 observes, that it is ordered that there should be in the great sanhedrim priests and Levites, as it is said: “and thou shalt come unto the priests, and the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire”; judge is here put for judges, of which the great court consisted, being priests, Levites, and Israelites; (see Gill on “ Deuteronomy 16:18”), though others think that only a single person is meant, such as Othniel, Ehud, Gideon, Samson, etc. but then as there was not always such an one in being, I should rather think that the judge here, if a single person, is the president or prince of the great sanhedrim, who succeeded Moses, and sat in his place; and of him and his court, the priests, and Levites and Israelites that composed it, inquiry was to be made: and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment ; give their judgment in the difficult case proposed, and declare what is right to be done, and what sentence is to be pronounced.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-13 - Courts of judgment were to be set up in every city. Though their judgment had not the Divine authority of an oracle, it was the judgmen of wise, prudent, experienced men, and had the advantage of a Divin promise.
Original Hebrew
ובאת 935 אל 413 הכהנים 3548 הלוים 3881 ואל 413 השׁפט 8199 אשׁר 834 יהיה 1961 בימים 3117 ההם 1992 ודרשׁת 1875 והגידו 5046 לך את 853 דבר 1697 המשׁפט׃ 4941
