Deuteronomy 19:17

then both of the men who have the strife have stood before YHWH, before the priests and the judges who are in those days,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

In Context

16When a violent witness rises against a man to testify against him apostasy,

18and the judges have searched diligently, and behold, the witness [is] a false witness who has testified a falsehood against his brother,

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Cross References

Exodus 21:6then his lord has brought him near to God, and has brought him near to the door, or to the doorpost, and his lord has bored his ear with an awl, and he has served him for all time.

Deuteronomy 17:9and have come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is in those days, and have inquired, and they have declared the word of judgment to you,

Malachi 2:7For the lips of a priest preserve knowledge, || And they seek law from his mouth, || For he [is] a messenger of YHWH of Hosts.

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 →

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