Treasury of Scripture
in thy bag
Leviticus 19:35,36 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in length, in weight, or in measure...
Proverbs 11:1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 16:11 A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Proverbs 20:10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Ezekiel 45:10,11 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath...
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...
Micah 6:11,12 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights...
divers weights [heb] a stone and a stone Aivenwaaiven; because weights were anciently made of stone. Hence the expression, a stone weight, which is still in use, though the matter of which it is made be lead or iron, and the name itself shows us that a stone of a certain weight was formerly used.
