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Keluaran 23:6

Janganlah engkau memperkosa hak orang miskin di antaramu dalam perkaranya.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Court;   Injustice;   Justice;   Poor;   Rulers;   The Topic Concordance - Judgment;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Courts of Justice;   Injustice;   Magistrates;   Poor, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Poor;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Judge;   Justice;   Law;   Poor;   Punishment;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Justice;   Poor and Poverty, Theology of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Court Systems;   Exodus, Book of;   Hammurabi;   Judge (Office);   Poor, Orphan, Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Covenant, Book of the;   Ethics;   Hexateuch;   Law;   Leviticus;   Poverty;   Priests and Levites;   Ten Commandments;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Justice;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amos (1);   Blindness, Judicial;   Covenant, the Book of the;   Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Judge;   Justice;   Poor;   Wrest;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Commandments, the 613;   Deuteronomy;   Hatred;   Judaism;   Judge;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Janganlah engkau memperkosa hak orang miskin di antaramu dalam perkaranya.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Jangan kamu mendolak-dalikkan hak orangmu yang miskin dalam acaranya.

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

Exodus 23:2, Exodus 23:3, Deuteronomy 16:19, Deuteronomy 27:19, 2 Chronicles 19:7, Job 31:13, Job 31:21, Job 31:22, Psalms 82:3, Psalms 82:4, Ecclesiastes 5:8, Isaiah 10:1, Isaiah 10:2, Jeremiah 5:28, Jeremiah 6:28, Jeremiah 7:6, Amos 5:11, Amos 5:12, Micah 3:1-4, Zephaniah 3:1-4, Malachi 3:5, James 2:5, James 2:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:16 - General Exodus 22:9 - the cause of both parties Deuteronomy 1:17 - ye shall hear Deuteronomy 24:17 - pervert Deuteronomy 25:1 - General 2 Samuel 23:3 - must be just Psalms 82:2 - judge Proverbs 22:22 - oppress Proverbs 24:24 - that Isaiah 5:23 - justify Isaiah 33:15 - shaketh Jeremiah 22:3 - Execute Habakkuk 1:4 - wrong 2 Peter 3:16 - wrest

Cross-References

Genesis 13:2
And Abram was very ryche in cattell, in siluer, and in golde.
Genesis 14:14
When Abram hearde that his brother was taken, he armed his exercised [seruauntes] whiche were borne in his owne house, three hundreth & eyghteen, and folowed on them vntyll Dan.
Genesis 18:12
Therefore Sara laughed within her selfe, saying: Nowe I am waxed olde shal I geue my selfe to lust, and my Lorde olde also?
Genesis 21:22
And at the same season, Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne spake vnto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:
Genesis 23:1
Sara was an hudreth and seuen and twentie yere olde (so long liued she.)
Genesis 23:2
And Sara dyed in Ciriath arba, the same is Hebron, in the lande of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourne for Sara, and to weepe for her.
Genesis 23:4
I am a straunger and a foriner amongest you: geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my corse out of my sight.
Genesis 23:5
And the chyldren of Heth aunswered Abraham, saying vnto hym:
Genesis 24:18
And she sayd: drinke my Lorde. And she hasted, and let downe her pytcher vpon her arme, and gaue him drinke.
Genesis 24:35
And God blessed my maister merueylously, that he is become great, and hath geuen him sheepe and oxen, siluer and golde, men seruauntes, and maydeseruauntes, camelles and asses.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. As the poor man was not to be favoured when his cause was bad through an affected pity for him as a poor man, so his judgment was not to be wrested or perverted, when his cause was good, because of his poverty; which is too often the case, through the power of rich men, and the prevalence of their gifts and bribes, and to curry favour with them: the phrase, "thy poor", is very emphatic, and intended to engage judges to regard them, as being of the same flesh and blood with them, of the same nation and religion; and who were particularly committed to their care and protection under God, who is the Judge and protector of the poor, of the widow and the fatherless.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Four precepts evidently addressed to those in authority as judges:

(a) To do justice to the poor. ComparingExodus 23:6; Exodus 23:6 with Exodus 23:3, it was the part of the judge to defend the poor against the oppression of the rich, and the part of the witness to take care lest his feelings of natural pity should tempt him to falsify evidence.

(b) To be cautious of inflicting capital punishment on one whose guilt was not clearly proved. A doubtful case was rather to be left to God Himself, who would “not justify the wicked,” nor suffer him to go unpunished though he might be acquitted by an earthly tribunal. Exodus 23:7.

(c) To take no bribe or present which might in any way pervert judgment Exodus 23:8; compare Num 16:15; 1 Samuel 12:3; Acts 26:26.

(d) To vindicate the rights of the stranger Exodus 23:9 - rather, the foreigner. (Exodus 20:10 note.) This verse is a repetition of Exodus 22:21, but the precept is there addressed to the people at large, while it is here addressed to the judges in reference to their official duties. The caution was perpetually necessary. Compare Ezekiel 22:7; Malachi 3:5. The word rendered “heart” is more strictly “soul,” and would be better represented here by feelings.



Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 23:6. Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor — Thou shalt neither countenance him in his crimes, nor condemn him in his righteousness. See Exodus 23:5; Exodus 23:7.


 
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