Deuteronomy 19:16

'When a violent witness doth rise against a man, to testify against him apostasy,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15'One witness doth not rise against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he sinneth; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, is a thing established.

17then have both the men who have the strife stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who are in those days,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:20'Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour — a false testimony.

Psalms 27:12Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

Mark 14:55And the chief priests and all the sanhedrim were seeking against Jesus testimony — to put him to death, and they were not finding,

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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