Levites] Levites were to instruct, priests to resolve cases (chap. 17. 8.) chief fathers to execute justice, Deuteronomy 16:18. judgement] Causes sacred and civill. See vers. 8. 1 Chronicles 26:32. when] Heb. and. they returned] They who were sent abroad, or they who had causes to be judged, as v. 10.