Deuteronomy 19:16
If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,
BSB
ASV
If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing,
KJV
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
Testify against him that which is wrong - Margin, more literally, “a falling away.” The word is used Deu 13:5 to signify apostasy or revolt; here it is no doubt to be understood in the wider sense of any departure from the Law.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 27:12Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
leads to
Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.
Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
Through
Psalms 35:11Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
leads to
Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
and said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?
