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 to the pigeon-dealers He said, "Take these things away. Do not turn my Father's house into a market."

The balances

1 Timothy 6:9
But people who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many unwise and pernicious ways which sink mankind in destruction and ruin.

He loveth

James 5:4
I tell you that the pay of the labourers who have gathered in your crops--pay which you are keeping back--is calling out against you; and the outcries of those who have been your reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of the armies of Heaven.

General references

Luke 19:46
"It is written," He said, "'And My house shall be the House of Prayer,' but you have made it a robbers' cave."