the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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这 两 个 争 讼 的 人 就 要 站 在 耶 和 华 面 前 ， 和 当 时 的 祭 司 ， 并 审 判 官 面 前 ，
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Deuteronomy 17:9, Deuteronomy 21:5, Malachi 2:7, Matthew 23:2, Matthew 23:3
Reciprocal: Exodus 21:6 - the judges Exodus 22:8 - the judges Deuteronomy 16:18 - Judges Deuteronomy 17:8 - get thee up Deuteronomy 25:1 - General Deuteronomy 26:3 - the priest 2 Samuel 19:29 - Thou Isaiah 50:8 - let us Acts 25:16 - and have
Cross-References
Lot looked all around and saw the whole Jordan Valley and that there was much water there. It was like the Lord 's garden, like the land of Egypt in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
So the men turned and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood there before the Lord .
because we are about to destroy this city. The Lord has heard of all the evil that is here, so he has sent us to destroy it."
So Lot went out and said to his future sons-in-law who were pledged to marry his daughters, "Hurry and leave this city! The Lord is about to destroy it!" But they thought Lot was joking.
At dawn the next morning, the angels begged Lot to hurry. They said, "Go! Take your wife and your two daughters with you so you will not be destroyed when the city is punished."
But Lot delayed. So the two men took the hands of Lot, his wife, and his two daughters and led them safely out of the city. So the Lord was merciful to Lot and his family.
But Lot said to one of them, "Sir, please don't force me to go so far!
But run there fast, because I cannot destroy Sodom until you are safely in that town." (That town is named Zoar, because it is little.)
At that point Lot's wife looked back. When she did, she became a pillar of salt.
One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old. Everywhere on the earth women and men marry, but there are no men around here for us to marry.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then both the men between whom the controversy is,.... The man that bears the false witness, and the man against whom it is borne:
shall stand before the Lord; as in the presence of him, the omniscient God, and as represented by judges and civil magistrates, whose vicegerents they are; so it seems to be explained in the next words, which are exegetical of these:
before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days; which shall compose the sanhedrim, or court of judicature; and this seems to confirm it, that by priest and judge, in Deuteronomy 17:9 are meant priests and judges; Jarchi says, this Scripture speaks of witnesses, that is, of the false witness that testifies wrong against a man, and another that contradicts his testimony, and teaches that there is no witness by women; and so it is elsewhere said a, an oath of witness is made by men, and not by women; on which it is observed b that a woman is not fit to bear witness, as it is written,
then both the men,.... men and not women; and the above writer remarks further, that it teaches that they ought to bear testimony standing.
a Misn. Shebuot, c. 4. sect. 1. b Bartenora in ib.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Both the men, between whom the controversy is - Not the accused and the false witness, but the plaintiff and defendant (compare Exodus 23:1) who were summoned before the supreme court held, as provided in Deuteronomy 17:0, at the sanctuary. The judges acted as God’s representative; to lie to them was to lie to Him.
