Verse 8
8. Jerusalem… Levites… priests… chief of the fathers From this we need not suppose that no Levites, or priests, or chief fathers were made judges in the other cities. Probably the judges in every city were selected from one or all of these three classes. Comp. 2 Chronicles 23:4; 2 Chronicles 2:0 Chronicles26:29, notes. But at Jerusalem was the supreme tribunal, to which cases came for final decision.
For the judgment of the Lord Equivalent to “all matters of the Lord,” in 2 Chronicles 19:11; that is, all matters pertaining to religion and the worship of Jehovah.
And for controversies Civil suits, as distinguished from religions or ecclesiastical; called in 2 Chronicles 19:11, “all the king’s matters.”
When they returned to Jerusalem Rather, and they returned, etc.
That is, the king and his attendants, who went out (2 Chronicles 19:4) from Jerusalem to settle the judicial interests of the kingdom, returned. This sentence ought to be connected with the verse immediately following.
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