Exodus 23:2

You shall not follow a crowd to do evil or pervert justice by siding with the majority. Truth, not popular pressure, must govern judgment.

Cross-references · 34

• Prov 1:10–11My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.
• Prov 1:15My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,
• Luke 23:23–24But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
• Matt 27:24–26So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”
• Job 31:34because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door —
• Deut 1:17You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
• 1 Kgs 19:10He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
• Exod 23:6–7“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
• Num 14:1–10All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
• Mark 15:15Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
• Prov 4:14Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
• Josh 24:15If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
• John 7:50–51Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
• Exod 32:1–5When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”
• Luke 23:51(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom:
• Acts 25:9But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be judged by me there concerning these things?”
• Jer 37:15The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
• Acts 24:27But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.
• Gen 19:4But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
• Gen 6:12God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
• Gen 19:7–9He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
• Ps 72:2He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
• 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. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”
• Jer 37:21Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
• Lev 19:15“‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
• Jer 38:5–6Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you.”
• Rom 1:32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
• Deut 24:17You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
• Gen 7:1Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
• Gal 2:11–13But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
• Ezek 9:9Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’
• Deut 16:19You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
• Hag 1:4“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
• 1 Sam 15:9But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, and of the fat calves, and the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

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