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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Deuteronomy 19:20

Ver. 20. And those which remain, shall hear, and fear, &c.— See chap. Deuteronomy 17:3. This is the grand end of all the Mosaic penal laws, and indeed of all such, enacted by wise legislators. See Grot. de Jur. B. and P. lib. 2: cap. 20. This law proves the authority which judges and magistrates have to make use of witnesses, and to examine them upon oath, in order to discover the truth, which those who are summoned as witnesses are obliged to declare: that those who are found to be false witnesses deserve the most exemplary punishment; and that, if they escape punishment from men, God will take vengeance of their perfidiousness and impiety.

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See also Deuteronomy 19:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    See the marginal references....

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DEUTERONOMY 19:14 TO DEUTERONOMY 25:19. Consists of miscellaneous laws having no apparent connexion with D's great law of the centralisation of worship. They deal with crime, war, marriage, family rel...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EVIL. See App-44....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _those which remain_, etc.] A curious parallel to Deuteronomy 13:11 (12)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Of Witnesses Two or three witnesses are necessary for a conviction (Deuteronomy 19:15). If a witness, forcing his evidence, accuse a man of defection from the law, the two shall stand before God in t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (3) CONCERNING WITNESSES AND JUDGMENT (Deuteronomy 19:15-21) 15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _IF A FALSE WITNESS RISE UP AGAINST ANY MAN TO TESTIFY AGAINST HIM THAT WHICH IS WRONG;_ But if convicted of perjury, it will be sufficient for his own condemnation, and his punishment shall be exactl...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CITIES OF REFUGE. PUNISHMENT OF DECEIT AND FALSE WITNESS 1-13. On the Cities of Refuge see Numbers 35:9 and notes there....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 19 V1 ‘The *LORD your God will *destroy the nations whose country he is giving to you. You will...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    Deuteronomy 19:15. FALSE TESTIMONY. The law of retaliation is sternly laid down here; but it must be administered by the judges, not by men acting on their own behalf. (17) BOTH THE MEN... SHALL STAND...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הַ נִּשְׁאָרִ֖ים יִשְׁמְע֣וּ וְ יִרָ֑אוּ ו

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ISRAELITE LIFE IT has often and justly been said that the life of Israel is so entirely founded on the grace and favor of God that no distinction is made between the secular an...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Still with his mind on the fact that the people were coming into the land, Moses made further applications of the laws to the new conditions. His words now had to do with life and land and truth and j...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Things. This is the design of penal laws, to render justice to the innocent, and to prevent the spreading of a contagious evil, by cutting off the hopes of impunity. (Grotius, Jur. ii. 10. 9.) --- "I...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The wisdom of those laws is too obvious to need a comment; they have been already noticed: Numbers 35:30. But what a sweet thought is it to the believer's experience, that in divine things there are t...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19, 20, AND 21. Chapter 19 opens with ordinances which contemplate the people in possession and enjoyment of the land; they were to observe them, that the la...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THOSE WHICH REMAIN SHALL HEAR, AND FEAR,.... Those which survive the false witness shall hear of the punishment inflicted on him, and fear to commit the like sin, lest they should be punished in l...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. Ver. 20. _Shall hear and fear._] Others' woes should be our warnings, others' sufferings our...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Cities of refuge. 4 The priuiledge thereof for the manslayer. 14 The land-marke is not to be remooued. 15 Two witnesses at the least. 16 The punishment of a false witnesse. 1 WHEN the LORD t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And those which remain shall hear and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you, Deuteronomy 17:13....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PRECEPTS REGARDING WITNESSES...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    CITIES OF REFUGE (vs.1-13) We have seen in Deuteronomy 4:41 that Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan as cities of refuge. Now Moses gives instructions to Israel that, when God should cut...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-21 Sentence should never be passed upon the testimony of one witness alone. A false witness should suffer the same punishment which he sought to have inflicted upon the person he accused. Nor could...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THOSE WHICH REMAIN, i.e. the rest of the people. See DEUTERONOMY 13:11, DEUTERONOMY 17:13....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; thou shalt separate three cities...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 19:20 remain H7604 (H8737) hear H8085 (H8799) fear H3372 (H8799) hereafter H3254 (H8686) again

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE EVIDENCE REQUIRED BEFORE CONVICTION FOR A CRIME: THE PUNISHMENT OF FALSE WITNESSES (DEUTERONOMY 19:15). The section on justice and the governing of the land which began at Deuteronomy 16:18 now en...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Cities of refuge; landmarks, witnesses. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God would possess men with a great horror and dread of the sin of killing another, even by chance. If by willful...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 19:14. _Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark._ This prohibition was salutary in preserving the public peace; it also extended to the removal of the boundaries between the tribes,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—This and the next two Chapter s contain enactments designed to protect human life, and to impress its sanctity on Israel.—_Speak. Com_. With Deuteronomy 19:1 _cf_. Exodus 21:13, and Nu...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION LAWS CONCERNING CITIES OF REFUGE. LANDMARKS NOT TO BE REMOVED. LAWS CONCERNING WITNESSES. DEUTERONOMY 19:1 Moses had be

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in the nineteenth chapter again, they are told to establish the cities of refuge; three of them when they come into the land. Three had already been established on the other side of Jordan. But wh...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Timothy 5:20; Deuteronomy 13:11; Deuteronomy 17:13; Deuteronomy 17:7;...

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