Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

General references

Bible References

A false balance is

Proverbs 16:11
A just beam and balances are Jehovah's, His work are all the stones of the bag.
Proverbs 20:10
A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
Leviticus 19:35
'Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;
Deuteronomy 25:13
'Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.
Hosea 12:7
Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.
Amos 8:5
Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.
Micah 6:10
Are there yet in the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

A just weight

Proverbs 16:11
A just beam and balances are Jehovah's, His work are all the stones of the bag.
Ezekiel 45:10
Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath -- ye have.

General references

Exodus 20:15
'Thou dost not steal.
Ezekiel 45:10
Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath -- ye have.