Deuteronomy 19:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; ”

• Deuteronomy 19:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - 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, fam...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  a false witness. Compare Exodus 23:1 , and Deuteronomy 19:16 .

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - 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...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - 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 35:9-34 and notes there.

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Deuteronomy 19:15-21 . 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... s...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - 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 secula...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - 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...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - 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 ar...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  If a false witness rise up against any man ,.... In a court of judicature: to testify against him : that which is not true of him, let it be in what case it will; Aben Ezra instances in idolatry,...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 singl...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  CITIES OF REFUGE (vs.1-13) We have seen in Deuteronomy 4:41-43 that Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan as cities of refuge. Now Moses gives instructions to Israel that, when God sh...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  False Witnesses. B. C. 1451.       14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Evidence Required Before Conviction For A Crime: The Punishment of False Witnesses ( Deuteronomy 19:15-21 ). The section on justice and the governing of the land which began at Deuteronomy 1...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - 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 19:1-10 cf . Exodus 21:...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - 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 trib...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION LAWS CONCERNING CITIES OF REFUGE . LANDMARKS NOT TO BE REMOVED . LAWS CONCERNING WITNESSES . Deuteronomy 19:1-5 Moses had before this enunciated the law c...

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Precepts Regarding Witnesses

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 21:10-13 ; Acts 6:13 ; Exodus 23:1-7 ; Mark 14:55-59 ; Psalms 27:12 ; Psalms 35:11

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• Deuteronomy 19:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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 condemna...

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