Hosea 12:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Hosea 12:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Amos 8:5-6
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? …
Micah 6:10-11
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? …
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Micah 7:2
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Topics

Balances Cab Cheating Commerce Dishonesty Embezzlement Fraud Homer

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-14)

Here are intermixed, in these verses, I. Reproofs for sin. When God is coming forth to contend with a people, that he may demonstrate his own righteousness, he will demonstrate their unrighteousness. Ephraim was called to turn to his God and keep judgment (Hos. 12:6); now, to show that he had need of that call, he is charged with turning from his God by idolatry, and breaking the laws of justice a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. merchant--a play on the double sense of the Hebrew, “Canaan,” that is, a Canaanite and a “merchant” Eze 16:3: “Thy birth is ... of Canaan.” They who naturally were descendants of pious Jacob had become virtually Canaanites, who were proverbial as cheating merchants (compare Is 23:11, Margin), the greatest reproach to Israel, who despised Canaan. The Phoenicians called themselves Canaanites or m…