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A false witness will not go unpunished.″ king Solomon says. [18] ″A false witness will perish″ [19] if he does not repent. The narrative in 1 Kings 21 describes a case of false testimony. King Ahab of Israel tried to convince Naboth the Jezreelite to sell him the vineyard Naboth owned adjacent to the king's palace.
One of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour"; for this reason, lying is generally considered as a sin in Christianity. [1] The story of Naboth in 1 Kings 21 provides an example where false witness leads to an unjust outcome. [2]
The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) forbids perjury in at least three verses: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor" (Exodus 20:12, part of the Ten Commandments), also phrased "Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor" (Deuteronomy 5, see Deut 5:16), and another verse "Keep yourself far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous do not kill; for I will not ...
The Catechism explains that bearing false witness or "speaking a falsehood with the intention of deceiving" encompasses all violations of truth. [143] These violations have degrees of gravity depending on the "intentions of the one who lies and the harms suffered by its victims." [146] Listed as follows, these are:
"Thou shalt not take the name of the L ORD thy God in vain" (KJV; also "You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God" and variants, Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תִשָּׂא אֶת-שֵׁם-יהוה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לַשָּׁוְא, romanized: Lōʾ t̲iśśāʾ ʾet̲-šēm-YHWH ʾĕlōhēḵā laššāwəʾ ) is the second or third (depending on numbering) of God's ...
The 2005 case went to court and Smith said he was acquitted when a primary witness changed his story. Court documents confirm the acquittal. ... "Bearing false witness against one's neighbor is a ...
Many will bear false witness to rob the poor John Lydgate (c. 1400) The Tale of the Hownde and the Shepe Sheep (defendant), Hound (accuser), Wolf and Kite (witnesses), Judge Restitution for a loaf that was lent Shorn for payment, it dies of cold and its body is shared between dog, wolf and kite Bearing false witness leads to damnation
An entertainment-industry crowd turned out on Wednesday for the Los Angeles premiere of “Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre,” a controversial 47-minute documentary assembled by the ...