If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
Deuteronomy 16:18-20 Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which the …
Deuteronomy 17:8,9 If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood …
Deuteronomy 19:17-19 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before …
Exodus 23:6,7 You shall not wrest the judgment of your poor in his cause…
2 Samuel 23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules …
2 Chronicles 19:6-10 And said to the judges, Take heed what you do: for you judge not …
Job 29:7-17 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my …
Psalm 58:1,2 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, …
Psalm 82:2-4 How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah…
Proverbs 17:15 He that justifies the wicked, and he that comdemns the just, even …
Proverbs 31:8,9 Open your mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed …
Isaiah 1:17,23 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the …
Isaiah 5:23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness …
Isaiah 11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with …
Isaiah 32:1,2 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule …
Jeremiah 21:12 O house of David, thus said the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, …
Ezekiel 44:24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge …
Micah 3:1,2 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of …
Habakkuk 1:4,13 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment does never go forth: for …
Matthew 3:10 And now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every …
And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
Matthew 10:17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, …
Matthew 27:26 Then released he Barabbas to them: and when he had scourged Jesus, …
Luke 12:47,48 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, …
Acts 5:40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and …
Acts 16:22-24 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates …
1 Peter 2:20,24 For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you …
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
not exceed
2 Corinthians 11:24,25 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one…
vile unto thee That is, be beaten so cruelly, that, by retaining the marks, he become contemptible in the eyes of his brethren. Amendment, and not this, was the object of the punishment. we should hate despise the sin, but not the sinner.
Job 18:3 Why are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Luke 15:30 But as soon as this your son was come, which has devoured your living …
Luke 18:9-12 And he spoke this parable to certain which trusted in themselves …
James 2:2,3 For if there come to your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly …
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
shalt not In Judea, as well as in Egypt, Greece, and Italy, they made use of beeves to tread out the corn; and the same mode of threshing still obtains in Arabia, Barbary, and other eastern countries, to the present day. The sheaves lie open and expanded on the threshing floors, and the cattle continually move round them, and thus tread out the grain. The natives of Aleppo still religiously observe the ancient humane practice, inculcated by this law, of permitting the oxen to remain unmuzzled when treading out the corn.
muzzle
Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man regards the life of his beast: but the tender mercies …
1 Corinthians 9:9,10 For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth …
1 Timothy 5:17,18 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, …
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
brethren
Matthew 22:24 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his …
Mark 12:19 Master, Moses wrote to us, If a man's brother die, and leave his …
Luke 20:28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote to us, If any man's brother die, having …
husband's brother. or, next kinsman
Genesis 38:8,9 And Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife, and marry her, …
Ruth 1:12,13 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an …
Ruth 3:9 And he said, Who are you? And she answered, I am Ruth your handmaid: …
Ruth 4:5 Then said Boaz, What day you buy the field of the hand of Naomi, …
And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
the first-born
Genesis 28:8-10 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father…
that his name
Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from …
Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his …
Ruth 4:10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased …
Psalm 9:5 You have rebuked the heathen, you have destroyed the wicked, you …
Psalm 109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let …
brother's wife. or, next kinsman's wife
go up
Deuteronomy 21:19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him …
Ruth 4:1-7 Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, …
And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.
loose his shoe Pulling off the shoe seems to express his being degraded to the situation of slaves, who generally went barefoot; and spitting in or rather before (biphney) his face, was a mark of the utmost ignominy.
Ruth 4:7,8 Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming …
Isaiah 20:2 At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, …
Mark 1:7 And preached, saying, There comes one mightier than I after me, the …
John 1:27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's …
spit
Numbers 12:14 And the LORD said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, …
Job 30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
Isaiah 50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked …
Matthew 26:67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote …
Matthew 27:30 And they spit on him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
Mark 10:34 And they shall mock him, and shall whip him, and shall spit on him, …
So shall
Genesis 38:8-10 And Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife, and marry her, …
Ruth 4:10,11 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased …
1 Samuel 2:30 Why the LORD God of Israel said, I said indeed that your house, and …
And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
in thy bag
Leviticus 19:35,36 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in length, in weight, …
Proverbs 11:1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 16:11 A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of the …
Proverbs 20:10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination …
Ezekiel 45:10,11 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath…
Amos 8:5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and …
Micah 6:11,12 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag …
divers weights [heb] a stone and a stone Aivenwaaiven; because weights were anciently made of stone. Hence the expression, a stone weight, which is still in use, though the matter of which it is made be lead or iron, and the name itself shows us that a stone of a certain weight was formerly used.
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
divers measures [heb] an ephah and an ephah Aiphah waaiphah; for this was the cost common measure among the Israelites, by which all the others were made and adjusted. They are not only forbidden to use divers weights and measures, one large or heavy to buy with, and another small and light to sell with, but they were not even allowed to keep such in the house. It is observable also, that these too common but dishonest actions are branded as `an abomination to the Lord,' equally with idolatry, and other scandalous crimes.
But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
that thy days
Deuteronomy 4:40 You shall keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which …
Deuteronomy 5:16,33 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded …
Deuteronomy 6:18 And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the …
Deuteronomy 11:9 And that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD swore …
Deuteronomy 17:20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brothers, and that he turn …
Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long on …
Psalm 34:12 What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
Ephesians 6:3 That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.
1 Peter 3:10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his …
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
when the
Joshua 23:1 And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest …
thou shalt
Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from …
Exodus 17:14,16 And the LORD said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, …
Joshua 6:3 And you shall compass the city, all you men of war, and go round …
Joshua 7:12,22-25 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, …
1 Samuel 14:48 And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered …
1 Samuel 15:1-35 Samuel also said to Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint you to be king …
1 Samuel 27:8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the …
1 Samuel 30:1-7 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on …
1 Chronicles 4:43 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and …
Esther 3:1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha …
Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. …
Esther 9:7-10 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha…
Psalm 83:7-17 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre…
