Acts 23:3

Then Rav Sha'ul said to him, Hashem is about to strike you, you white-washed wall! You sit judging me according to Torah and yet in violation of the Torah you command me to be struck? + 23:3 Lv 19:15; Dt 25:1,2

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?

In Context

2And the Kohen Gadol Chananyah ordered the ones standing by Rav Sha'ul to strike his mouth.

4And the ones standing by said, Do you revile the Kohen Gadol of Hashem?

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in scales, in weights, and dry measures.

Psalms 58:1(For the one directing. Set to Do Not Destroy. Mikhtam Dovid) 1

Psalms 94:20Shall the kisse of corruption have chavurah (fellowship) with Thee, 1 those, which deviseth evil by a chok (statute)? 1

Amos 5:7Ye who turn mishpat into wormwood, 1 and cast tzedakah to the ground. 1

Matthew 23:27Oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim, for you are like kevarim (graves) having been whitewashed, which on the outside indeed appear ois vaist (ostensibly) shein (beautiful), but on the inside are full of the unclean bones of the mesim (dead ones) and every trayfnyak.

John 18:24Then Anan sent him, still in the akedah, to Caiapha the Kohen Gadol.

Matthew Henry on Acts 23:2-6

Paul's Second Defence. 1 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day. 2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth. 3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law? 4 And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest? 5 Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that… Read the whole commentary →

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