Topic
Balances
13 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1884–1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Leviticus 19:36Smith · Nave Must be just
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.
- Hosea 12:7Smith · Nave False balance used
¶ He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
- Micah 6:11Smith · Nave False balance used
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
- Job 31:6Nave Used for weighing
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
- Proverbs 11:1Nave An abomination
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
- Proverbs 16:11Nave Must be just
A just weight and balance are the LORD’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
- Proverbs 20:23Nave An abomination
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
- Isaiah 40:12Nave Used for weighing
¶ 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 40:15Nave Used for weighing
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 46:6Nave Money weighed with
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.
- Jeremiah 32:10Nave Money weighed with
And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
- Ezekiel 5:1Nave Used for weighing
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.
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- Amos 8:5 Nave False balance used
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 3 references
In the topical indexes
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.