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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 Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite: thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite. (Ezek. 16:3)

or, deceive.

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a merchant.

or, Canaan.

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

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Zech. 14:21• ²¹Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto Jehovah: 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 Jehovah of hosts. (Zech. 14:21)

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John 2:16• ¹⁶and to the sellers of the doves he said, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise. (John 2:16)

the balances.

Lev. 19:35‑36• ³⁵Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in measure.
³⁶Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] Jehovah your God that 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 Jehovah,{HR}But a just weight his delight. (Prov. 11:1)

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Prov. 16:11• ¹¹The just balance and scales [are] of Jehovah;{HR}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 for deceit:
⁶that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat. (Amos 8:5‑6)

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

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1 Tim. 6:9‑10• ⁹But those that wish to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, such as sink men into destruction and perdition.
¹⁰For a root of all evils is the love of money, which some eagerly seeking were led astray from the faith and pierced themselves through with many pains. (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 neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the elder, and the base against the honourable. (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• ⁷panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning 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 on the palaces at Ashdod, and on the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great uproar in the midst thereof, and the oppressions that are within her: (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 practice 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?
²Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
³and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron. (Mic. 3:1‑3)

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Mic. 7:2• ²The good man is perished out of the land, 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 Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)

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James 5:4• ⁴Behold, the hire of the labourers who reaped your fields, that is kept back of you crieth out, and the cries of those that reaped entered into the ears of Jehovah of hosts. (James 5:4)

oppress.

or, deceive.

1 Sam. 12:3• ³Here I am: testify against me before Jehovah, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I injured? or of whose hand have I received any ransom and blinded mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it to 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."

W. Kelly Translation

A merchant [Canaan], the balance of deceit in his hand, he loveth to overreach!