Balances
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Used for weighing
Job 31:6; Isa 40:12, 15; Ezek 5:1
6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
Job 31:612 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah 40:1215 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Isaiah 40:151 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
Ezekiel 5:1 -
Money weighed with
Isa 46:6; Jer 32:10
6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Isaiah 46:610 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
Jeremiah 32:10 -
Must be just
Lev 19:36; Prov 16:11
36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:3611 A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Proverbs 16:11 -
False balance used
Hos 12:7; Amos 8:5; Mic 6:11
7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Hosea 12:75 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Amos 8:511 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Micah 6:11 -
An abomination
Prov 11:1; 20:23
1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 11:123 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Proverbs 20:23 - Figurative
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
