Balances

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Bible verses about “Balances”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Job 31:6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
• Isaiah 40:12Who 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 40:15Behold, 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.
• Ezekiel 5:1And 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.
• Isaiah 46:6They 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 32:10And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
• Leviticus 19:36Just 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.
• Proverbs 16:11A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
• Hosea 12:7He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
• Amos 8:5Saying, 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 6:11Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
• Proverbs 11:1A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
• Proverbs 20:23Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.