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
Weighing and balances of judgment are to Jehovah, and his work all the stones of the bag.
Proverbs 20:10
A stone and stone, an ephah and ephah, an abomination of Jehovah, also they two.
Leviticus 19:35
Ye shall not do evil in judgment, in tribute, in weight, and in measure.
Deuteronomy 25:13
There shall not be to thee in thy receptacle a stone and a stone, great and small.
Hosea 12:7
Canaan in his hand, the balances of deceit: he loved to oppress.
Amos 8:5
Saying, When will the month pass through, and we will sell grain? and the Sabbath, and we will open wheat to diminish the ephah, and to enlarge the shekel, and to make crooked the balance of deceit?
Micah 6:10
Are there yet treasures of injustice in the house of the unjust, and the ephah of leanness being cursed?

A just weight

Proverbs 16:11
Weighing and balances of judgment are to Jehovah, and his work all the stones of the bag.
Ezekiel 45:10
A just balance, and a just ephah, and a just bath, shall be to you.

General references

Exodus 20:15
Thou shalt not steal.
Ezekiel 45:10
A just balance, and a just ephah, and a just bath, shall be to you.