Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

A false balance

Bible References

Weights

Proverbs 20:10
Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Ezekiel 45:10
Ye shall have just balances and a just ephah and a just bath.

A false balance

Hosea 12:7
He is a merchant who has the balances of deceit in his hand; he loves to oppress.
Amos 8:5
saying, When the month is over, we will sell the wheat; and after the sabbath day we will open the storehouse of bread, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit;