Deuteronomy 25:1

And if there should be a dispute between men, and they should come forward to judgment, and the judges judge, and justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked:

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

In Context

2then it shall come to pass, if the unrighteous should be worthy of stripes, you shall lay him down before the judges, and they shall scourge him before them according to his iniquity.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:6You shall not wrest the sentence of the poor in his judgment.

Deuteronomy 16:18You shall make for yourself judges and officers in your cities, which the Lord your God gives you in your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment:

Deuteronomy 17:9then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out the matter and report the judgment to you.

2 Samuel 23:3The God of Israel says, A watchman out of Israel spoke to me a parable: I said among men, How will you⌃ strengthen the fear of the anointed?

Job 29:7When I went forth early in the city, and the seat was placed for me in the streets.

Psalms 82:2For behold, your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate you have lifted up the head. 1

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 25:1

Here is, I. A law to moderate the scourging of malefactors, ver. 1-3 . II. A law in favour of the ox that treads out the corn, ver. 4 . III. For the disgracing of him that refused to marry his brother's widow, ver. 5-10 . IV. For the punishment of an immodest woman, ver. 11, 12 . V. For just weights and measures, ver. 13-16 . VI. For the destroying of Amalek, ver. 17 , &c. Read the whole commentary →

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