OT-HISTORY.filter - geneva justify:

geneva@Exodus:23:7 @ Keep thee far from a false matter; and the (note:)Whether you are the magistrate or are commanded by the magistrate.(:note) innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

geneva@Deuteronomy:25:1 @ If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, (note:)Whether there is a plaintiff or not, the magistrates should try our faults, and punish according to the crime.(:note) that [the judges] may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

geneva@Judges:6:31 @ And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? (note:)Thus we ought to justify those who are zealous of God's cause, though all the multitude are against us.(:note) he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst [it is yet] morning: if he [be] a god, let him plead for himself, because [one] hath cast down his altar.

geneva@1Samuel:15:13 @ And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD: I have performed the (note:)This is the nature of hypocrites to be impudent against the truth, to condemn others, and justify themselves.(:note) commandment of the LORD.

geneva@2Samuel:14:32 @ And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? [it had been] good for me [to have been] there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and (note:)If I have offended by revenging my sister's dishonour: thus the wicked justify themselves in their evil.(:note) if there be [any] iniquity in me, let him kill me.

geneva@1Kings:8:32 @ Then hear thou in heaven, and (note:)That is, make it known.(:note) do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:23 @ Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way (note:)Meaning, to give him that which he has deserved.(:note) upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

geneva@Nehemiah:13:14 @ Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my (note:)He protests that he did his duty with a good conscience yet he does not justify himself in it, but desires God to favour him and to be merciful to him for his own goodness' sake, as in (Neh_13:22, Neh_13:31).(:note) good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.