Deuteronomy 19:14-21 ASV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:14-21

Here is a statute for the preventing of frauds and perjuries; for the divine law takes care of men's rights and properties, and has made a hedge about them. Such a friend is it to human society and men's civil interest. I. A law against frauds, Deut. 19:14. 1. Here is an implicit direction given to the first planters of Canaan to fix land-marks, according to the distribution of the land to the several tribes and families by lot. Note, It is the will of God that every one should know his own,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:14

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark ,.... By which one man's land is distinguished from another; for so to do is to injure a man's property, and alienate his lands to the use of another, which must be a very great evil, and render those that do it obnoxious to a curse, Deuteronomy 27:17 . which they of old have set in thine inheritance, which thou shall inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it ; the land of Canaan: this is thought to refer to the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:15

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth ,.... Whether capital sins, or pecuniary debts; or whatsoever sins a man may be guilty of whether sins against the first or second table of the law, whether greater or lesser sins, whether in moral or civil things; the Jews except only in the case of a woman suspected of adultery and of beheading the heifer: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:16

If a false witness rise up against any man ,.... In a court of judicature: to testify against him : that which is not true of him, let it be in what case it will; Aben Ezra instances in idolatry, but it holds good of any other. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:17

Then both the men between whom the controversy is ,.... The man that bears the false witness, and the man against whom it is borne: shall stand before the Lord ; as in the presence of him, the omniscient God, and as represented by judges and civil magistrates, whose vicegerents they are; so it seems to be explained in the next words, which are exegetical of these: before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days ; which shall compose the sanhedrim, or court of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:18

And the judges shall make diligent inquisition ,.... Into the case before them, into the nature of the evidence and proof that each witness brings for or against; so the Targum of Jonathan,"the judges shall interrogate the witness, by whom these things are said, well;'shall thoroughly examine the testimony given, and look carefully into it: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother ; it appears plainly by full evidence that he has... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:19

Then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother ,.... Inflict the same fine or punishment on him he thought to have brought his brother under by his false testimony of him; whether any pecuniary fine, or whipping and scourging, or the loss of a member, or the value of it, or death itself; whether stoning, strangling, burning, or killing with the sword: though, in the case of accusing a priest's daughter of adultery, as Jarchi observes, such were not to be burnt, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:20

And those which remain shall hear, and fear ,.... Those which survive the false witness shall hear of the punishment inflicted on him, and fear to commit the like sin, lest they should be punished in like manner. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:21

And thine eye shall not pity ,.... The false witness when convicted; this is directed to the judges, who should not spare such an one through favour or affection, but pronounce a righteous sentence on him, and see it executed, in proportion to the crime, and that according to the law of retaliation: but life shall go for life ; in such a case where the life of a person must have gone, if the falsehood of the testimony had not been discovered, the false witness must suffer death; in other... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 19:14

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark - Before the extensive use of fences, landed property was marked out by stones or posts, set up so as to ascertain the divisions of family estates. It was easy to remove one of these landmarks, and set it in a different place; and thus the dishonest man enlarged his own estate by contracting that of his neighbor. The termini or landmarks among the Romans were held very sacred, and were at last deified. To these termini Numa Pompillus... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:14-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 19:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 19:14

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