Hosea 12:7 KJV — MannaFest

Hosea 12:7

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

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ASV

He isa trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

WEB

A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.

YLT

Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.

DBT

[He is] a merchant, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress.

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Hosea — A prophet commanded to marry an unfaithful wife — his marriage becomes the sermon. Fourteen chapters on covenant unfaithfulness and a love that will not let Israel go.

Author: Hosea son of Beeri (1:1)
Date: Ministry c. 755–715 BC — the decades leading up to the 722 BC fall of the northern kingdom

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Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
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, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Mark 11:17
And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Proverbs 20:23
Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.
Micah 6:11
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

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merchant--a play on the double sense of the Hebrew, "Canaan," that is, a Canaanite and a "merchant" Eze 16:3: "Thy birth is . . . of Canaan." They who naturally were descendants of pious Jacob had become virtually Canaanites, who were proverbial as cheating merchants (compare Isa 23:11, Margin), the greatest reproach to Israel, who despised Canaan.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Here observe, (1.) What the sin is wherewith he is charged: He is a merchant. The margin reads it as a proper name, He is Canaan, or a Canaanite, unworthy to be denominated from Jacob and Israel, and worthy to be cast out with a curse from this good land, as the Canaanites were.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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