20And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-21)Here is a statute for the preventing of frauds and perjuries; for the divine law takes care of men’s rights and properties, and has made a hedge about them. Such a friend is it to human society and men’s civil interest. I. A law against frauds, Deut. 19:14. 1. Here is an implicit direction given to the first planters of Canaan to fix land-marks, according to the distribution of the land to the sev…
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