BALANCES

Passages on this topic · 13

• Leviticus 19:36

  You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

• Job 31:6

  (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

• Proverbs 11:1

  A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

• Proverbs 16:11

  Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.

• Proverbs 20:23

  Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

• Isaiah 40:12

  Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

• Isaiah 40:15

  Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

• Isaiah 46:6

  Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down — yes, they worship.

• Jeremiah 32:10

  I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.

• Ezekiel 5:1

  “You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.

• Hosea 12:7

  A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

• Amos 8:5

  Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

• Micah 6:11

  Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?