Proverbs 20:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

Proverbs 20:23 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 20:10
Divers weights, and divers 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.
Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Hosea 12:7
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Amos 8:5
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?

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Commentary

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

(vv. 23)

This is to the same purport with what was said Prov. 20:20. 1. It is here repeated, because it is a sin that God doubly hates (as lying, which is of the same nature with this sin, is mentioned twice among the seven things that God hates, Prov. 6:17, 19), and because it was probably a sin very much practised at that time in Israel, and therefore made light of as if there were no harm in it, under p…

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

(vv. 23)

23. (Compare Pr 20:10; 11:1).