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Deuteronomio 16:19
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No tuerzas el derecho; no hagas acepcin de personas, ni tomes soborno; porque el soborno ciega los ojos de los sabios, y pervierte las palabras de los justos.
No tuerzas el derecho; no hagas acepcin de personas, ni tomes soborno; porque el soborno ciega los ojos de los sabios, y pervierte las palabras de los justos.
No tuerzas el derecho; no hagas acepcin de personas, ni tomes soborno; porque el soborno ciega los ojos de los sabios, y pervierte las palabras de los justos.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
wrest: Deuteronomy 24:17, Deuteronomy 27:19, Exodus 23:2, Exodus 23:6-8, Leviticus 19:15, 1 Samuel 8:3, 1 Samuel 12:3, Job 31:21, Job 31:22, Proverbs 17:23, Ecclesiastes 7:7, Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 33:15, Jeremiah 5:28, Ezekiel 22:12, Micah 7:3, Habakkuk 1:4, Zephaniah 3:3-5, Acts 16:37, Acts 23:3
respect: Deuteronomy 1:16, Deuteronomy 1:17, Deuteronomy 10:17, Exodus 23:7, Exodus 23:8, Proverbs 24:23, Proverbs 24:28, Acts 10:34
words: or, matters
Reciprocal: Exodus 18:21 - hating Exodus 21:26 - General Exodus 22:9 - the cause of both parties Leviticus 25:14 - General Deuteronomy 21:2 - General Deuteronomy 27:25 - General 1 Samuel 8:1 - made his 1 Kings 21:8 - the elders 2 Chronicles 19:7 - taking of gifts Job 32:21 - accept Psalms 15:5 - nor taketh Psalms 26:10 - bribes Psalms 58:1 - Do Proverbs 15:27 - but Proverbs 17:8 - gift Proverbs 18:5 - not Isaiah 5:23 - for reward Hosea 4:18 - her Mark 12:14 - for thou John 7:24 - General Acts 24:26 - hoped Romans 2:11 - General 1 Timothy 6:10 - the love James 2:1 - with 2 Peter 3:16 - wrest
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou shall not wrest judgment,.... Or pervert it, pass a wrong sentence, or act contrary to justice; this is said to the judges as a direction to them, and so what follows:
thou shalt not respect persons; so as to give the cause on account of outward circumstances and relations; as in favour of a rich man against a poor man merely for that reason, or of a near relation or intimate friend and acquaintance against a stranger, but justice should be administered without favour or affection to any; as Jarchi puts it, he was to make no difference in his address and behaviour to contending parties before him; he was not to be tender and soft to one and hard to the other, or let one stand and another sit:
neither take a gift: as a bribe to give the cause wrong: at Thebes, in Egypt, as Diodorus Siculus y relates, in a court on a wall, were images of judges to the number of thirty; in the midst of them was the chief judge; having Truth hanging down from his neck (which seems to be in imitation of the Urim of the high priest of the Jews), his eyes shut, and many books by him; by which image was shown, that judges should receive nothing, and that the chief judge should look to truth only:
for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous; see Exodus 23:8 the Jews have a saying, that a judge that takes a bribe, and perverts judgment, does not die of old age, or till his eyes become dim z.
y Bibliothec. l. 1. c. 45. z Misn. Peah, c. 8. sect. 9.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
These verses are closely connected in subject with the following chapter, and introduce certain directions for the administration of justice and the carrying on of the civil government of the people in Canaan. During the lifetime of Moses, he himself, especially inspired and guided by God, was sufficient, with the aid of the subordinate judges (compare Exodus 18:13 ff), for the duties in question. But now that Moses was to be withdrawn, and the people would soon be scattered up and down the land of Canaan, regular and permanent provision must be made for civil and social order and good government.
Deuteronomy 16:21
A grove ... - Render, Thou shalt not plant for thee any tree as an idol: literally as an Asherah,” “i. e.” an image of Astarte or Ashtaroth, the Phoenician goddess (compare Deuteronomy 7:5 note, Deuteronomy 7:13 note). The word is rendered “grove” by the King James Version also in Deuteronomy 7:5; Deuteronomy 12:3; Exodus 34:13; Judges 6:25, but cannot be maintained, for the word is connected with various verbs which are quite inapplicable to a grove. The wooden idol in question was the stem of a tree, stripped of its boughs, set upright in the ground, and rudely carved with emblems.
