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Justice Over Majority Rule
Commentators explain that this verse's primary context is legal integrity. It commands judges and witnesses not to pervert justice simply to align with a popular verdict. This is a specific application of the ninth commandment against bearing false witness, urging truthfulness even when it's unpopular.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 23:1–3
18th Century
Theologian
These four commands, addressed to the conscience, are illustrations of the ninth commandment, mainly in reference to the giving of evidence in lega…
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 23:1–19
19th Century
Bishop
The “miscellaneous laws” are here continued. From Exodus 23:1 to Exodus 23:9 no kind of sequence in the laws can be traced; from Exodus 23:10 to th…
John Gill
On Exodus 23:2
17th Century
Pastor
You shall not follow a multitude to do evil
The Targums of Jerusalem and Jonathan add, but to do good. As in private…
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Matthew Henry
On Exodus 23:1–9
17th Century
Minister
In the law of Moses are very plain marks of sound moral feeling, and of true political wisdom. Everything in it is suited to the desired and avowed…