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Exd 23:2 — Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]:

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

follow		Exd 32:1-5; Gen 6:12; Gen 7:1; Gen 19:4,7-9; Num 14:1-10; Jos 24:15; 1Sa 15:9; 1Ki 19:10; Job 31:34; Pro 1:10,11,15; Pro 4:14; Mat 27:24-26; Mar 15:15; Luk 23:23,24,51; Jhn 7:50,51; Act 24:27; Act 25:9; Rom 1:32; Gal 2:11-13
speak		or, answer.
to decline		Exd 23:6,7; Lev 19:15; Deu 1:17; Psa 72:2; Jer 37:15,21; Jer 38:5,6,9; Eze 9:9; Hag 1:4

Correlating Passages

	Exd 32:1	And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for [as for] this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
	Exd 32:2	And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which [are] in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring [them] unto me.
	Exd 32:3	And all the people brake off the golden earrings which [were] in their ears, and brought [them] unto Aaron.
	Exd 32:4	And he received [them] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These [be] thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
	Exd 32:5	And when Aaron saw [it], he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow [is] a feast to the LORD.
	Gen 6:12	And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
	Gen 7:1	And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
	Gen 19:4	But before they lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
	Gen 19:7	And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
	Gen 19:8	Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as [is] good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
	Gen 19:9	And they said, Stand back. And they said [again], This one [fellow] came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, [even] Lot, and came near to break the door.
	Num 14:1	And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
	Num 14:2	And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
	Num 14:3	And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
	Num 14:4	And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
	Num 14:5	Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
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	Jos 24:15	And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
	1Sa 15:9	But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all [that was] good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing [that was] vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
	1Ki 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.
	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?
	Pro 1:10	My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
	Pro 1:11	If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
	Pro 1:15	My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
	Pro 4:14	Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men].
	Mat 27:24	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].
	Mat 27:25	Then answered all the people, and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children.
	Mat 27:26	Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered [him] to be crucified.
	Mar 15:15	And [so] Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged [him], to be crucified.
	Luk 23:23	And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
	Luk 23:24	And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
	Luk 23:51	(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) [he was] of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
	Jhn 7:50	Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)
	Jhn 7:51	Doth our law judge [any] man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
	Act 24:27	But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
	Act 25:9	But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?
	Rom 1:32	Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
	Gal 2:11	But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
	Gal 2:12	For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
	Gal 2:13	And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

to decline

	Exd 23:6	Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
	Exd 23:7	Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
	Lev 19:15	Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: [but] in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
	Deu 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.
	Psa 72:2	He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
	Jer 37:15	Wherefore 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.
	Jer 37:21	Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
	Jer 38:5	Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand: for the king [is] not [he that] can do [any] thing against you.
	Jer 38:6	Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
	Jer 38:9	My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for [there is] no more bread in the city.
	Eze 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 perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
	Hag 1:4	[Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste?

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Scott, Thomas. "Exodus 23:2," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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