Reference for Deuteronomy 17:22

After a short time there was also founded in Jabneh a court having the same powers as the court in Jerusalem. The text of the Bible that “if a thing shall be hidden from you in a judgment between blood and blood or between one claim and another or between one damage and another in a dispute within your gates, you shall arise and go to the place which the Lord God will choose” (Deut. 17:8) they interpreted to mean that the court gives authority to the place where it is located and not the place to the court; it was therefore concluded that Jabneh might also be such a place.