A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:1Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
Ezekiel 28:5By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.
Amos 8:5asking, "When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
Micah 6:11Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?
Zechariah 5:8"This is Wickedness," he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.
Treasury of Scripture
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
a merchant.
Ezekiel 16:3
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
Zechariah 14:21
Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
John 2:16
And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
the balances.
Leviticus 19:35,36
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure…
Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 16:11
A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
he loveth.
Isaiah 3:5
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Amos 2:7
That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
oppress.
1 Samuel 12:3
Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.