Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

Bible References

To decline

Exodus 23:6
Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause.
Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
Deuteronomy 1:17
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it.
Psalm 72:2
He will judge thy people with righteousness, And thy poor with justice.
Jeremiah 37:15
And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah 38:5
And Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do anything against you.
Ezekiel 9:9
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wrestling of judgment : for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah seeth not.
Haggai 1:4
Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?

General references

Exodus 23:6
Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause.
Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he that wresteth the justice due to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Job 13:8
Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?

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