Bible Verses About Courts of Justice: Inferior Court: Held at the Gates

And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.