Exodus 23

Treated in 13 passages across the library.

  • 23:2 Do not follow a crowd to do evil. And when you speak in a lawsuit, do not lean toward the many so as to bend justice. 3
  • 23:25 Serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water. I will take sickness away from among you. 3
  • 23:4 When you find your enemy's ox or donkey gone astray, you must lead it back to its owner. 2
  • 23:22 If you truly heed his voice and do everything I tell you, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to those who stand against you. 2
  • 23:28 I will send the hornet in front of you, and it will chase the Hivites, the Canaanites and the Hittites out of your path. 2
  • 23:5 Suppose the donkey of someone who hates you has sunk down under its burden. However much you may wish to leave it to them, you must work with them to set it free. 1
  • 23:6 Do not pervert the justice due to your poor when they bring a case. 1
  • 23:7 Stay far away from a false charge. Do not put to death one who is innocent and in the right, for I will not declare the wicked to be in the right. 1
  • 23:8 Take no bribe. A bribe blinds the clear-sighted and overturns the cause of those who are in the right. 1
  • 23:9 Do not oppress a foreigner living among you. You know from the inside what a foreigner's life is like, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt. 1
  • 23:12 Work for six days, but on the seventh day stop, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the child of your female servant and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed. 1
  • 23:13 Be on guard in all that I have said to you. Do not make mention of the names of other gods; let no such name be heard from your mouth. 1
  • 23:19 The best of your ground's firstfruits you are to bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. 1
  • 23:23 For my angel will go before you and bring you to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I will make an end of them. 1
  • 23:24 Do not bow down to their gods or serve them, and do not copy what they do. Instead, you are to pull those gods down completely and break their sacred pillars into pieces. 1
  • 23:26 No woman in your land will lose her child before birth or be unable to bear children. I will let you live out the full number of your days. 1
  • 23:27 I will send terror of me ahead of you and throw every people you come against into panic. I will make all your enemies show you their backs. 1
  • 23:29 Yet I will not clear them away from before you within one year. If I did, the land would lie empty, and the wild animals would multiply and overrun you. 1
  • 23:30 I will drive them out from before you little by little, until you have grown many and can take the land as your own. 1
  • 23:31 I will fix your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. I will hand over to you the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. Sons of the King – 30 Days with God for Guys – Book 3 · Ochorus Originals

    Day 16 — Don’t Follow the Crowd cites Exodus 23:2

    “You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing.” — Exodus 23:2 (BSB) A group of guys is making fun of a kid at lunch, and they look at you to join in.…

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.1 The First Commandment cites Exod 23: 13

    …‘Make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.’ Exod 23: 13. ‘God looks upon it as breaking the marriage-covenant, to go after other gods. Therefore…

  3. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The best things work for good to the godly cites Exod. xxiii. 25

    …good for us, then the withholding of it is good. “I will bless thy bread and thy water” (Exod. xxiii. 25). This blessing falls as the honey dew upon the leaf; it sweetens that little we possess.…

  4. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 8 — Exposition of the Moral Law cites Exod. 23:12

    …thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed,” (Exod. 23:12). Who can deny that both are equally applicable to us as to the Jews? Religious meetings…

  5. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Exhortations to those who are called cites Exod. xxiii. 2

    …walked with the devil, Noah walked with God. We are forbidden to run with the multitude (Exod. xxiii. 2). Though in civil things singularity is not commendable, yet in religion it is good to be…

  6. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.6 The Sixth Commandment cites Exod 23: 4

    …the law, if one met his neighbour’s ox or ass going astray, he must bring him back again. Exod 23: 4. Much more, if we see our neighbour’s soul going astray, we should use all means to bring…

  7. The Key Teachings of Athanasius of Alexandria · Ochorus Originals

    Athanasius Against the World cites EXODUS 23:2

    …and was astonished to find itself Arian. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. EXODUS 23:2 Through all of it, Athanasius would not sign. He wrote, he argued, he hid, and he waited.…

  8. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Month of April cites Exod. 23:28

    …thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee" Exod. 23:28 What the hornets were we need not consider. They were God's own army, which He sent…

  9. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Month of May cites Exod. 23:25

    …BLESSED "Ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water" Exod. 23:25 What a promise is this! To serve God is in itself a high delight. But what an added…

  10. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Month of December cites Exod. 23:22

    …then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries" Exod. 23:22 The Lord Christ in the midst of His people is to be acknowledged and obeyed. He is the…

  11. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Signs of one truly bruised. Means and measure of bruising, and comfort to such cites Exod. xxiii. 19

    …they should not take the dam with the young, nor seethe the kid in the mother’s milk, Exod. xxiii. 19, nor muzzle the mouth of the ox, 1 Cor. ix. 9. Hath God care of beasts, and not of his…

  12. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    July cites Exo 23:4-9

    …his only covering, or have forborne to help him when he stood in sore need (Exo 22:26-27; Exo 23:4-9). We are bidden to get right with man, as the first step to acceptance with God—“ first…

  13. The Way Into the Holiest · F. B. Meyer

    The Two Covenants cites Exod. xxiii. 22-31

    …in his promises, which comprehended a vast variety of need, and consisted of many parts (Exod. xxiii. 22-31). And again the people gave one mighty, unanimous shout of assent (xxiv. 3). Nor was this…