juj'-ing, juj'-ment: Often in the Old Testament for "to act as a magistrate" (Ex 18:13;De 1:16;16:18, etc.), justice being administered generally by "elders" (Ex 18:13-27), or "kings" (1Sa 8:20) or "priests" (De 18:15); applied to God as the Supreme Judge (Ps 9:7,8;10:18;96:13;Mic 4:3, etc.;Ps 7:8"Yahweh ministereth judgment," vividly describes a court scene, with Yahweh as Judge).
Often in the New Testament, ethically, for
(1) "to decide," "give a verdict," "declare an opinion" (Greek krino);
(2) "to investigate," "scrutinize" (Greek anakrino);
(3) "to discriminate," "distinguish" (Greek diakrino).
Used also forensically inLu 22:30;Ac 25:10; and applied to God inJoh 5:22;Heb 10:30. The judgments of God are the expression of His justice, the formal declarations of His judgments, whether embodied in words (De 5:1the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "statutes"), or deeds (Ex 6:6;Re 16:7), or in decisions that are yet to be published (Ps 36:6). Man's consciousness of guilt inevitably associates God's judgments as declarations of the Divine justice, with his own condemnation, i.e. he knows that a strict exercise of justice means his condemnation, and thus "judgment" and "condemnation" become in his mind synonymous (Ro 5:16); hence, the prayer ofPs 143:2, "Enter not into judgment"; also,Joh 6:29, "the resurrection of judgment" (the King James Version "damnation");1Co 11:29, "eateth and drinketh judgment" (the King James Version "damnation").
H. E. Jacobs