Exodus 23:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

Exodus 23:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Psalms 82:2-3
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. …
Deuteronomy 1:17
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

Topics

Adjudication at Law Afflictions and Adversities Alms Arbitration Beggars Citizens Compromise Contempt of Court

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. 3)

3. countenance--adorn, embellish--thou shalt not varnish the cause even of a poor man to give it a better coloring than it merits.