Exodus 23:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 22:21
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Matthew 18:33
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
Deuteronomy 24:14-18
Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: …
Exodus 21:21
Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

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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…