Exodus 23:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

Exodus 23:7 —

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Cross-References

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Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Deuteronomy 27:25
Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Exodus 23:1
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Exodus 34:7
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Leviticus 19:11
Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

Topics

Accusation, False Adjudication at Law Arbitration Backbiting Citizens Compromise Contempt of Court Conviction

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…