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Hos. 12:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

He is νa merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to πoppress.

Canaan,

Ezek. 16:3• ³And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. (Ezek. 16:3)

or, deceive.

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a merchant.

or, Canaan.

Ezek. 16:3• ³And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. (Ezek. 16:3)

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Zech. 14:21• ²¹Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts. (Zech. 14:21)

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John 2:16• ¹⁶And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise. (John 2:16)

the balances.

Lev. 19:35‑36• ³⁵Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
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. (Lev. 19:35‑36)

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Prov. 11:1• ¹A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. (Prov. 11:1)

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Prov. 16:11• ¹¹A just weight and balance are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work. (Prov. 16:11)

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Amos 8:5‑6• 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?
⁶That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? (Amos 8:5‑6)

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Mic. 6:10‑11• ¹⁰Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
¹¹Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? (Mic. 6:10‑11)

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1 Tim. 6:9‑10• ⁹But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
¹⁰For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. (1 Tim. 6:9‑10)

he loveth.

Isa. 3:5• ⁵And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable. (Isa. 3:5)

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Ezek. 22:29• ²⁹The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. (Ezek. 22:29)

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Amos 2:7• ⁷That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: (Amos 2:7)

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Amos 3:9• ⁹Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof. (Amos 3:9)

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Amos 4:1• ¹Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. (Amos 4:1)

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Amos 5:11• ¹¹Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. (Amos 5:11)

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Mic. 2:1• ¹Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. (Mic. 2:1)

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Mic. 3:1‑3• ¹And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
²Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
³Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. (Mic. 3:1‑3)

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Mic. 7:2• ²The 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. (Mic. 7:2)

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Mal. 3:5• ⁵And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)

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James 5:4• ⁴Behold, the hire of the laborers 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. (James 5:4)

oppress.

or, deceive.

1 Sam. 12:3• ³Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. (1 Sam. 12:3)

• {v.7-8} How often prosperity blinds to evil, and God’s judgment those who should know both. (“Hosea 12” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

He is a merchantc, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppressd.

JND Translation Notes

Lit. "Canaan [is he]"; see Ezek. 17.4.

Or "to defraud."