"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to {do} evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest {judg…" — Exodus 23:2

Exodus 23:2 · KJV

“Thou shalt not follow a multitude to {do} evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest {judgment}: {speak: Heb. answer}”

— Exodus 23:2

Verse 1

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. {raise: or, receive}

Verse 3

Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

Exodus 23 — Context

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. {raise: or, receive}

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

Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:10-11

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

Proverbs 1:15

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Luke 23:23-24

And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.

Job 31:34

Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, {and} went not out of the door?

Matthew 27:24-26

When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but {that} rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed {his} hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye {to it}.

Deuteronomy 1:17

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; {but} ye shall hear the small as well as the great; 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, bring {it} unto me, and I will hear it. {respect...: Heb. acknowledge faces}

Exodus 23:6-7

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

1 Kings 19:10

And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, {even} I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.