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Law – Bible
What does the Bible have to say about listening to the law of the land? In particular, if it is seen as an
abomination to the Lord God. In Leviticus it makes the statement that those who keep His charge should “not
practice any of the abominable customs.” This is to say that even though it may be lawful in the land, one must not
pursue the evil ways. Let us take a look at what Jamieson’s Commentary has to say about other iniquities.

Leviticus 18:29-30 “For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut
off from among their people. ‘Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the
abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I
am the LORD your God. ” 35

Therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it; and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants—The
Canaanites, as enormous and incorrigible sinners, were to be exterminated; and this extermination was manifestly a judicial
punishment inflicted by a ruler whose laws had been grossly and perseveringly outraged. But before a law can be disobeyed, it must
have been previously in existence; and hence a law, prohibiting all the horrid crimes enumerated above—a law obligatory upon the
Canaanites as well as other nations—was already known and in force before the Levitical law of incest was promulgated. Some
general Iaw, then, prohibiting these crimes must have been published to mankind at a very early period of the world’s history; and that
law must either have been the moral law, originally written on the human heart, or a law on the institution of marriage revealed to
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Adam and known to the Canaanites and others by tradition or otherwise.
The Bible also makes the statement the king and those in authority should consult and confirm the words of
God’s Law. This includes not being persuaded by the evil wants and ways of the people in the land. This has
been the prime desires of people and their rights that this nation upholds. A prime example is King Josiah.

2 Kings 23:24-25 “Moreover, Josiah removed the mediums and the spiritists and the teraphim and the
idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might
confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house
of the LORD. Before him there was no king like him who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with
all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after
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him.”
Notwithstanding, the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his wrath — The national reformation which Josiah
carried on was acquiesced in by the people from submission to the royal will; but they entertained a secret and strong hankering after
the suppressed idolatries. Though outwardly purified, their hearts were not right towards God, as appears from many passages of the
prophetic writings; their thorough reform was hopeless; and God, who saw no sign of genuine repentance, allowed His decree (2Ki
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21:12–15) for the subversion of the kingdom to take fatal effect.

In Jamieson’s Commentary, it makes the statement that subversion of the land will have a fatal effect. The
scripture goes on to say in Proverbs that they who do not listen to God’s Law and who lead the upright astray
into evil ways “will himself fall into his own pit.” It also makes the statement that “the blameless will inherit good.” Does
this mean that the U.S. Justices will fall into their own pit of darkness?

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New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. 1995 (Le 18:29–30). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.
36 Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., & Brown, D. (1997). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (Le 18:25). Oak Harbor,
WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
37 New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. 1995 (2 Ki 23:24–25). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

38 Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., & Brown, D. (1997). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (2 Ki 23:26). Oak Harbor,
WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.