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Proverbs 20:10 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 20 · verse 10
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.Proverbs 20:10 · King James Version
Proverbs 20:10 in context
8A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- abominationtôwʻêbahproperly, something disgustingH8441 →
- measuresʼêyphâhan ephah or measure for grainH374 →
- weightsʼebena stoneH68 →
- alikegamproperly, assemblageH1571 →
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See here, 1. The various arts of deceiving that men have, all which evils the love of money is the root of. In paying and receiving money, which was then commonly done by the scale, they had divers weights, an under-weight for what they paid and an over-weight for what they received;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary