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Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 23:1-33

Exodus 23:2 At certain seasons the only way of being right in the future consists in knowing how to resign ourselves to being unfashionable in the present. Renan. Universal suffrage assembled at hustings I will consult it about the quality of New Orleans pork, or the coarser kinds of Irish butter; but as to the character of men, I will if possible ask it no question: or if the question be asked and the answer given, I will generally consider, in cases of any importance, that the said answer is... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:1-19

CHAPTER XXIII.THE LESSER LAW (continued).Exodus 23:1-19.The twenty-third chapter begins with a series of commands bearing upon the course of justice; but among these there is interjected very curiously a command to bring back the stray ox or ass of an enemy, and to help under a burden the over-weighted ass of him that hateth thee, even "if thou wouldest forbear to help him." It is just possible that the lawgiver, urging justice in the bearing of testimony, interrupts himself to speak of a very... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:1-33

6THE LESSER LAW.Exodus 20:18 - Exodus 23:33.With the close of the Decalogue and its universal obligations, we approach a brief code of laws, purely Hebrew, but of the deepest moral interest, confessed by hostile criticism to bear every mark of a remote antiquity, and distinctly severed from what precedes and follows by a marked difference in the circumstances.This is evidently the book of the Covenant to which the nation gave its formal assent (Exodus 24:7), and is therefore the germ and the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Exodus 23:1-33

CHAPTER 23 Further Judgments and Directions 1. Concerning unrighteous dealings of various kinds (Exodus 23:1-9 ) 2. Concerning the seventh year (Exodus 23:10-13 ) 3. Concerning the three feasts (Exodus 23:14-19 ) 4. Promises concerning the possession of the land (Exodus 23:20-33 ) We call attention to the words concerning the seventh year. The seventh day was the day of rest. The seventh year was to give the land rest; it was to rest and lie still. Besides this there was the jubilee... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 23:1-33

INSISTENCE ON HONESTY (vs.1-9) Consistently with the language of law, the question of honesty is looked at from a negative viewpoint, that is, emphasizing what one should not do. How easily one may circulate a false report without realizing it is false because he did not carefully check its source. May the Lord keep us from this. To circulate this is bad, and also to associate with others who do so. Both of these are seen in verse 1. Again, a crowd may be carried away by an evil report. We... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:1-33

THE CIVIL CODE The ten commandments constitute the moral law, a perfect rule of duty for all men and everywhere. But the “judgments” (Exodus 21:1 ) that follow are an application of those commandments to Israel in the peculiar circumstances of their history at that time and when they should inhabit Canaan. The ten commandments, let us say, represent the constitution of the United States, and the judgments the legislative enactments based thereon by Congress. The three chapters now entered... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Exodus 23:1-33

Negative Commandments Exodus 22-23 We cannot read the book of Exodus without being struck by the number of things which we are not to do. These detailed and emphatic prohibitions we may regard under the name of negative commandments. We are not left to ourselves in any instance to determine a case of doubt; from beginning to end the Divine voice is clear, and direct, and final in its tone. These negative commandments are interesting upon every ground; but perhaps especially so as revealing... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 23:3

This is a beautiful precept. Hence in our courts of judicature, the figure of justice is painted blind, as if to show, that strict justice respects not persons. Acts 10:34 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:3

Favour. Mercy would then be contrary to justice. (Psalm lxxi. 2; St. Augustine q. 88.) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 23:1-9

1-9 In the law of Moses are very plain marks of sound moral feeling, and of true political wisdom. Every thing in it is suited to the desired and avowed object, the worship of one only God, and the separation of Israel from the pagan world. Neither parties, friends, witnesses, nor common opinions, must move us to lessen great faults, to aggravate small ones, excuse offenders, accuse the innocent, or misrepresent any thing. read more