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TESTIFY AGAINST HIM THAT WHICH IS WRONG - Margin, more literally, “a
falling away.” The word is used Deuteronomy 13:5 to signify apostasy
or revolt; here it is no doubt to be understood in the wider s...
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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...
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A FALSE WITNESS. Compare Exodus 23:1, and Deuteronomy 19:16....
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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...
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BUT _if_ So Sam. LXX.
_unrighteous witness_ Heb. _witness of violence_. So E, Exodus 23:1,
and Psalms 35:11, apparently one who _forces_his evidence, does
_violence_to the truth or intends _violence_...
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_VER._ 16. _TO TESTIFY AGAINST HIM THAT WHICH IS WRONG_— That is,
_to accuse him,_ to _lay any crime to his charge._ Houbigant tenders
it very properly, _ut eum criminis accusat: that he may accuse hi...
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(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,...
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_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...
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19:16 witness (c-4) Lit. 'witness of violence,'...
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THE CITIES OF REFUGE. PUNISHMENT OF DECEIT AND FALSE WITNESS
1-13. On the Cities of Refuge see Numbers 35:9 and notes there....
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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...
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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...
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כִּֽי ־יָק֥וּם עֵד ־חָמָ֖ס בְּ אִ֑ישׁ
לַ
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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...
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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...
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Transgression against the law, by apostacy or by idolatry, (Junius) or
by any other grievous crime. The person accused might, in this case,
be examined, but he could not be condemned unless another wi...
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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...
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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...
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16._If a false witness rise up against any man_. Because the fear of
God does not so prevail in all men, as that they should voluntarily
abstain from the love of slander, God here appoints the punishm...
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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...
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_One witness shall not rise up_ Or, _be established_, as the same word
is rendered in the end of the verse; that is, shall not be accepted or
owned as sufficient. _If a false witness rise up_ A single...
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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...
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If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that
which is wrong, as might happen where only a single witness is
available and the charge is a very grave one, literally, one of
fa...
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PRECEPTS REGARDING WITNESSES...
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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...
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AGAINST:
Or, falling away...
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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...
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A single witness, though he speak truth, is not to be accepted for the
condemnation of another man; but if he be convicted of false witness,
this is sufficient for his own condemnation....
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"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...
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Deuteronomy 19:16 false H2555 witness H5707 rises H6965 (H8799) man
H376 testify H6030 (H8800) wrongdoing H5627
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 19:16 In disputed legal cases, the
issue is taken to the central sanctuary, BEFORE THE LORD ...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
LAWS CONCERNING CITIES OF REFUGE. LANDMARKS NOT TO BE REMOVED. LAWS
CONCERNING WITNESSES.
DEUTERONOMY 19:1
Moses had be
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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...
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1 Kings 21:10; Acts 6:13; Exodus 23:1; Mark 14:55; Psalms 27:12;...
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A safe witness — A single witness, though he speak truth, is not to
be accepted for the condemnation of another man, but if he be
convicted of false witness, this is sufficient for his own
condemnatio...