Exodus 23:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Exodus 23:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 101:5
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Proverbs 19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Deuteronomy 19:16-21
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; …
Matthew 26:59-61
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; …
Exodus 20:16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Topics

Accusation, False Adjudication at Law Backbiting Citizens Compromise Conviction Court Covenant

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Here are, I. Cautions concerning judicial proceedings; it was not enough that they had good laws, better than ever any nation had, but care must be taken for the due administration of justice according to those laws. 1. The witnesses are here cautioned that they neither occasion an innocent man to be indicted, by raising a false report of him and setting common fame against him, nor assist in the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Ex 23:1-33. Laws concerning Slander, &c. 1. put not thine hand--join not hands.