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Keluaran 23:1

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Accusation, False;   Conspiracy;   Evidence;   Falsehood;   False Teachers;   Injustice;   Justice;   Oath;   Slander;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Witnesses, False;   The Topic Concordance - Lying/lies;   Witness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Slander;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Malice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Justice;   Lie, Lying;   Violence;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nicodemus;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Court Systems;   Exodus, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Covenant, Book of the;   Ethics;   Hexateuch;   Law;   Leviticus;   Lie, Lying;   Priests and Levites;   Ten Commandments;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Witness;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Justice;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Blindness, Judicial;   Covenant, the Book of the;   Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Justice;   Nicodemus;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Calumny;   Commandments, the 613;   Ethics;   Evidence;  

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Contextual Overview

1 Thou shalt not haue to do with any false report, neither shalt thou put thine hand with the wicked, to be an vnrighteous witnesse. 2 Thou shalt not folow a multitude to do euill, neither shalt thou speake in a matter of iustice according to the greater number, for to peruert iudgement. 3 Neither shalt thou esteeme a poore man in his cause. 4 If thou meete thyne enemies oxe or asse goyng astray, thou shalt bryng them to him agayne. 5 If thou see the asse of him that hateth thee sincke vnder his burthen, thou shalt not passe by and let him alone, but shalt helpe hym to lyft hym vp agayne. 6 Thou shalt not hinder the right of thy poore in his suite. 7 Kepe thee farre from a false matter, and the innocent and righteous see thou slay not: for I wyll not iustifie the wicked. 8 Thou shalt take no gyftes: for gyftes blinde the seyng, and peruert the wordes of the righteous. 9 Thou shalt not oppresse a straunger: for ye know the heart of a straunger, seyng ye were straungers in the lande of Egypt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shalt not: Exodus 23:7, Exodus 20:16, Leviticus 19:16, 2 Samuel 16:3, 2 Samuel 19:27, Psalms 15:3, Psalms 101:5, Psalms 120:3, Proverbs 10:18, Proverbs 17:4, Proverbs 25:23, Jeremiah 20:10, Matthew 28:14, Matthew 28:15, Romans 3:8

raise: or, receive

an unrighteous witness: Deuteronomy 5:20, Deuteronomy 19:16-21, 1 Kings 21:10-13, Psalms 27:12, Psalms 35:11, Proverbs 6:19, Proverbs 12:17, Proverbs 19:5, Proverbs 19:9, Proverbs 19:28, Proverbs 21:28, Proverbs 24:28, Proverbs 25:18, Matthew 19:18, Matthew 26:59-61, Luke 3:14, Luke 19:8, Acts 6:11-13, Ephesians 4:25, 2 Timothy 3:3, 1 Peter 3:16, Revelation 12:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:17 - General Exodus 22:11 - that he hath not Deuteronomy 22:14 - General 1 Kings 21:11 - did as Jezebel Proverbs 14:5 - General Ezekiel 22:9 - men that carry tales 1 Corinthians 6:9 - unrighteous

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
But Abraham fell vppon his face, and laughed, and sayde in his heart: shall a chylde be borne vnto hym that is an hundreth yere olde? And shall Sara that is ninetie yere olde beare?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt not raise a false report,.... Of a neighbour, or of any man whatever, either secretly by private slanders, whispers, backbiting and tale bearing, by innuendos, detracting from his good name and credit, suggesting things false and wicked concerning him; or publicly in a court of judicature, bringing a false accusation, laying a false charge, and bearing a false testimony against him: or "thou shall not receive a false report" p; if there were not so many, that say, Report, and we will report it, that are ready to receive every ill thing of their neighbours, there would not be so many that would raise such ill things of them; everything of this kind should be discountenanced, and especially by judges in courts of judicature, who are chiefly spoken to and of in the context; these should not easily admit every charge and accusation brought; nor bear, or endure a false report, as the word also signifies, but discourage, and even punish it:

put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness; which is not a gesture used in swearing, such as with us, of putting the hand upon a book, which did not obtain so early; nor is there any instance of this kind in Scripture; the gesture used in swearing was either putting the hand under the thigh, which yet is questionable, or lifting of it up to heaven; but here it is expressive of confederacy, of joining hand in hand to carry on a prosecution in an unrighteous way, by bearing false testimony against another; and such were to be guarded against, and not admitted to give evidence in a cause, even a man that is known to be a wicked man, or to have been an unrighteous witness before; on the one hand, a man should be careful of joining with him in a testimony that is unrighteous; and, on the other hand, judges should take care not to suffer such to be witnesses. The Jews say q, that everyone that is condemned to be scourged, or has been scourged for some crime committed, is reckoned a wicked man, and he is not to be admitted a witness, nor his testimony taken.

p לא תשא "non suscipies", V. L. Pegninus, Vatablus, Drusius, Fagius. q Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 3. sect. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These four commands, addressed to the conscience, are illustrations of the ninth commandment, mainly in reference to the giving of evidence in legal causes. Compare 1 Kings 21:10; Acts 6:11.

Exodus 23:2

This verse might be more strictly rendered, “Thou shalt not follow the many to evil; neither shalt thou bear witness in a cause so as to incline after the many to pervert justice.”

Exodus 23:3

Countenance - Rather, show partiality to a man’s cause because he is poor (compare Leviticus 19:15).

These four commands, addressed to the conscience, are illustrations of the ninth commandment, mainly in reference to the giving of evidence in legal causes. Compare 1 Kings 21:10; Acts 6:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXIII

Laws against evil-speaking, 1.

Against bad company, 2.

Against partiality, 3.

Laws commanding acts of kindness and humanity, 4, 5.

Against oppression, 6.

Against unrighteous decisions, 7.

Against bribery and corruption, 8.

Against unkindness to strangers, 9.

The ordinance concerning the Sabbatical year, 10, 11.

The Sabbath a day of rest, 12.

General directions concerning circumcision, c., 13.

The three annual festivals, 14.

The feast of unleavened bread, 15.

The feast of harvest, and the feast of ingathering, 16.

All the males to appear before God thrice in a year, 17.

Different ordinances-no blood to be offered with leavened

bread-no fat to be left till the next day-the first fruits

to be brought to the house of God-and a kid not to be seethed

in its mother's milk, 18, 19.

Description of the Angel of God, who was to lead the people into

the promised land, and drive out the Amorites, c., 20-23.

Idolatry to be avoided, and the images of idols destroyed, 24.

Different promises to obedience, 25-27.

Hornets shall be sent to drive out the Canaanites, &c., 28.

The ancient inhabitants to be driven out by little and little,

and the reason why, 29, 30.

The boundaries of the promised land, 31.

No league or covenant to be made with the ancient inhabitants,

who are all to be utterly expelled, 32, 33.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXIII.

Verse Exodus 23:1. Thou shalt not raise a false report — Acting contrary to this precept is a sin against the ninth commandment. And the inventor and receiver of false and slanderous reports, are almost equally criminal. The word seems to refer to either, and our translators have very properly retained both senses, putting raise in the text, and receive in the margin. The original לא תשא lo tissa has been translated, thou shalt not publish. Were there no publishers of slander and calumny, there would be no receivers and were there none to receive them, there would be none to raise them and were there no raisers, receivers, nor propagators of calumny, lies, &c., society would be in peace.


 
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