Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Exodus 23:6
i.e. Of the poor which is among thee, not of the poor Jews only, as some peradventure may conceive; for common right must be done even to the Gentiles. Compare Deuteronomy 27:19.
i.e. Of the poor which is among thee, not of the poor Jews only, as some peradventure may conceive; for common right must be done even to the Gentiles. Compare Deuteronomy 27:19.
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....
Four precepts evidently addressed to those in authority as judges: (a) To do justice to the poor. ComparingExodus 23:6 with Exodus 23:3, it was the part of the judge to defend the poor against the op...
CHAPTER 23 FURTHER JUDGMENTS AND DIRECTIONS _ 1. Concerning unrighteous dealings of various kinds (Exodus 23:1)_ 2. Concerning the seventh year (Exodus 23:10) 3. Concerning the three feasts (Exodus...
EXODUS 23:1 R. JUSTICE. Form and substance also separate _this_ group from the Judgments and ally it with the Words of Yahweh in the Covenant Book. Circulating groundless reports (Exodus 23:1_ a_), co...
Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 _The Book of the Covenant_ The -Book of the Covenant" (see Exodus 24:7 in explanation of the name) is the oldest piece of Hebrew legislation that we possess. The laws co...
Cf. Deuteronomy 1:17; and, more generally, Leviticus 19:15 (H), Deuteronomy 16:19. As is well known, the maladministration of justice is, and always has been, a crying evil among Oriental nations; and...
Justice to be administered impartially: bribes not to be taken; the poor and the _gêr_not to be oppressed. The verses form the continuation of _vv._1 3, _vv._1 3 dealing with fairness in bearing _witn...
THOU SHALT NOT WREST THE JUDGMENT OF THY POOR IN HIS CAUSE— _The poor,_ is emphatic; and designed to enforce the observation of this law, which enjoins the impartial administration of justice to the _...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 23 THOU SHALT NOT TAKE UP A FALSE REPORT: PUT NOT THY HAND WITH THE WICKED TO BE AN UNRIGHTEOUS WITNESS. (2) THOU SHALT NOT FOLLOW A MULTITUDE TO DO EVIL; NEITHER SHALT...
_THOU SHALT NOT WREST THE JUDGMENT OF THY POOR IN HIS CAUSE._ Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. These verses contain a series of cautions to rulers and magistrates to take c...
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (CONCLUDED) 1-19. Miscellaneous Laws....
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 23 LAWS ABOUT HOW TO BE FAIR AND HOW TO BE KIND – VERSES 1-9 V1 Th...
THOU SHALT NOT WREST THE JUDGMENT OF THY POOR. — If we are not to favour the poor man in a court of justice on account of his poverty (Exodus 23:3), much less are we to treat him with disfavour. (Comp...
XXIII. (1-19) The “miscellaneous laws” are here continued. From Exodus 23:1 to Exodus 23:9 no kind of sequence in the laws can be traced; from Exodus 23:10 to the first clause of...
לֹ֥א תַטֶּ֛ה מִשְׁפַּ֥ט אֶבְיֹנְךָ֖ בְּ רִיבֹֽו׃...
THE LESSER LAW. Exodus 20:18 - Exodus 23:33. With the close of the Decalogue and its universal obligations, we approach a brief code of laws, purely Hebrew, but of the deepest moral interest, confes...
LAWS OF CONDUCT AND WORSHIP Exodus 23:1 We may apply these various precepts to our own hearts. Many of them breathe the very spirit of Christ. We must watch our speech, so that no man's character may...
The enactments now recorded have to do with the administration of justice. A study of them reveals that true justice is always merciful and yet makes sterner demand than any moral code of laws. The di...
All these are so many repeated commands of one and the same rule of equity, and which the Lord Jesus hath given a full commentary of. Matthew 7:12....
"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
6._Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor_. Since laws are enacted to repress the vices which are of frequent occurrence, no wonder that God should put forward the case of the poor, to whom it...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...
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...
_Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause._ Ver. 6. _The judgment of thy poor._] I have seen, saith one, _a_ the king of Persia many times to alight from his horse, only to do justi...
_Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor_ As a judge should beware, lest through motives of compassion, or an affectation of popularity, he be biassed in favour of the poor; so, on the other han...
1 Of slander and false witnesse. 3.6 Of iustice. 4 Of charitablenesse. 10 Of the yeere of rest. 12 Of the Sabbath. 13 Of idolatrie. 14 Of the three feasts. 18 Of the blood and the fat of the sac...
Thou shalt not wrest the Judgment of thy poor, of the poor dependent upon thee, IN HIS CAUSE. This ordinance supplements v. 3, bidding the mighty beware of violating their position and the rights of t...
FURTHER ORDINANCES REGARDING SOCIAL RELATIONS...
C. FIRST FORM OF THE LAW OF THE POLITICAL COMMONWEALTH Exodus 21:1 to Exodus 23:33 _a. Right of Personal Freedom (according to Bertheau, ten in number)_ 1Now these _are_ the judgments [ordinances] w...
INSISTENCE ON HONESTY (vs.1-9) Consistently with the language of law, the question of honesty is looked at from a negative viewpoint, that is, emphasizing what one should not do. How easily one may c...
1-9 In the law of Moses are very plain marks of sound moral feeling, and of true political wisdom. Every thing in it is suited to the desired and avowed object, the worship of one only God, and the se...
The study of this section of our book is eminently calculated to impress the heart with a sense d God's unsearchable wisdom and infinite goodness. It enables one to form some idea of the character of...
Exodus 23:6 pervert H5186 (H8686) judgment H4941 poor H34 dispute H7379 Exodus 23:2-3;...
EXPANSION OF THE TEN WORDS OF THE COVENANT (EXODUS 20:22 TO EXODUS 23:33). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly in chiastic form (see later), Yahweh expands on the Ten W...
REGULATIONS CONCERNING BEHAVIOUR TO ONE'S NEIGHBOUR (EXODUS 23:1). There is an interesting pattern to the following verses. (Compare Exodus 23:1 with Exodus 23:7;...
CONTENTS: Judgments on the national feasts. Instructions concerning the conquest of Canaan. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God's angels will keep the believer in the way, though it lay through...
Exodus 23:1. _Put not thine hand with the wicked,_ do not conspire or agree with them. Exodus 23:3. _Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man._ The meaning of this and the former verse is, there sha...
_Thou shalt not wrest the judgment._ DUTIES OF JUDGES I. That judges should be impartial. 1. In particular towards the poor (Exodus 23:6). (1) Because the poor are most open to the oppression of t...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 23:6 To PERVERT... JUSTICE could involve taking advantage of the POOR in a LAWSUIT. It could also mean showing partiality to them by altering testimony (v....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 23:1 Thou shalt not raise] = _TISSA_, FROM THE INF. _NAPA_, IN ITS SIMPLE SENSE, “to carry,” and in its ethical, “to bear about in the heart.” Hence _tissa_ is a pregnant word...
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT.—_Continued_. EXPOSITION EXODUS 23:1 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS—_continued_. The same want of logical arrangement appears in this chapter as in the preceding one. The first nine ve...
Thou shalt not raise a false report: [perjury] to put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. [In other words, conspiracy in perjury.] Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; [Yo...
Exodus 23:2 Exodus 23:3 Deuteronomy 16:19 Deuteronomy 27:19...