Deuteronomy 19:15
One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged.
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16If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong,
Cross References
Numbers 35:30Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough.
1 Kings 21:10And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.
Matthew 18:16But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.
John 8:17Even in your law it is said that the witness of two men is true.
1 Timothy 5:19Do not take as true any statement made against one in authority, but only if two or three give witness to it.
Revelation 11:3And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 19:15-21
False Witnesses. ( b. c. 1451.) 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it. 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, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. 16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is… Read the whole commentary →