Deuteronomy 19:18

and the judges have searched diligently, and lo, the witness [is] a false witness, a falsehood he hath testified against his brother:

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

In Context

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

19'Then ye have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:14and thou hast enquired, and searched, and asked diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in thy midst:

2 Chronicles 19:6and saith unto the judges, 'See what ye are doing — for not for man do ye judge, but for Jehovah, who [is] with you in the matter of judgment;

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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