19Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-26)When the law was written, to be seen and read by all men , the sanctions of it were to be published, which, to complete the solemnity of their covenanting with God, they were deliberately to declare their approbation of. This they were before directed to do ( Deut. 11:29 , 30 ), and therefore the appointment here begins somewhat abruptly, Deut. 27:12. There were, it seems, in Canaan, that part of…
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