Exodus 22:28

26 ^aIf you ever take your neighbor’s garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.

27 For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it will be that when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am ^agracious.

28 ^a“You shall not revile God, nor curse a ^bruler of your people.

29 “You shall not delay to offer ^athe first of your ripe produce and your juices. ^bThe firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.

30 ^aLikewise you shall do with your oxen and your sheep. It shall be with its mother ^bseven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Exodus 22:28

Thou shalt not revile the gods - Most commentators believe that the word gods here means magistrates. The original is Elohim , and should be understood of the true God only: Thou shalt not blaspheme or make light of [ tekallel ] God, the fountain of justice and power, nor curse the ruler of thy people, who derives his authority from God. We shall ever find that he who despises a good civil government, and is disaffected to that under which he lives, is one who has little fear of God before his eyes. The spirit of disaffection and sedition is ever opposed to the religion of the Bible. When those who have been pious get under the spirit of misrule, they infallibly get shorn of their spiritual strength, and become like salt that has lost its savor. He who can indulge himself in speaking evil of the civil ruler, will soon learn to blaspheme God. The highest authority says, Fear God: honor the king.

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