1If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
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He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. …
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; …
And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment. …
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Here is, I. A direction to the judges in scourging malefactors, Deut. 25:1-3. 1. It is here supposed that, if a man be charged with a crime, the accuser and the accused ( Actor and Reus ) should be brought face to face before the judges, that the controversy may be determined. 2. If a man were accused of a crime, and the proof fell short, so that the charge could not be made out against him by the…
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