Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

A merchant

The balances

He loveth

General references

Bible References

A merchant

John 2:16
and told the pigeon-dealers, "Away with these! My Father's house is not to be turned into a shop!"

The balances

1 Timothy 6:9
Those who are eager to be rich get tempted and trapped in many senseless and pernicious propensities that drag men down to ruin and destruction.

He loveth

James 5:4
See, the wages of which you have defrauded the workmen who mowed your fields call out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

General references

Luke 19:46
"It is written," he told them, "my house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers."