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Selected Verse: Deuteronomy 25:13 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| De 25:13 |
Strong Concordance |
Thou shalt not have in thy bag [03599] divers weights [068] [068], a great [01419] and a small [06996]. |
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King James |
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Thou shalt not have . . . divers weights--Weights were anciently made of stone and are frequently used still by Eastern shopkeepers and traders, who take them out of the bag and put them in the balance. The man who is not cheated by the trader and his bag of divers weights must be blessed with more acuteness than most of his fellows [ROBERTS]. (Compare Pro 16:11; Pro 20:10). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Honesty in trade, as a duty to our neighbor, is emphatically enforced once more (compare Lev 19:35-36). It is noteworthy that John the Baptist puts the like duties in the forefront of his preaching (compare Luk 3:12 ff); and that "the prophets" (compare Eze 45:10-12; Amo 8:5; Mic 6:10-11) and "the Psalms" Pro 16:11; Pro 20:10, Pro 20:23, not less than "the Law," especially insist on them.
Deu 25:13
Divers weights - i. e. stones of unequal weights, the lighter to sell with, the heavier to buy with. Stones were used by the Jews instead of brass or lead for their weights, as less liable to lose anything through rust or wear.
Deu 25:17-19
It was not after the spirit or mission of the Law to aim at overcoming inveterate opposition by love and by attempts at conversion (contrast Luk 9:55-56). The law taught God's hatred of sin and of rebellion against Him by enjoining the extinction of the obstinate sinner. The Amalekites were a kindred people Gen 36:15-16; and living as they did in the peninsula of Sinai, they could not but have well known the mighty acts God had done for His people in Egypt and the Red Sea; yet they manifested from the first a persistent hostility to Israel (compare Exo 17:8, and note; Num 14:45). They provoked therefore the sentence here pronounced, which was executed at last by Saul (Sa1 15:3 ff). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| The duty of integrity in trade is once more enforced in Deu 25:13-16 (as in Lev 19:35-36). "Stone and stone," i.e., two kinds of stones for weighing (cf. Psa 12:3), viz., large ones for buying and small ones for selling. On the promise in Deu 25:15, see Deu 4:26; Deu 5:16; Deu 25:16, as in Deu 22:5; Deu 18:12, etc. In the concluding words, Deu 25:16, "all that do unrighteously," Moses sums up all breaches of the law. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| A great and a small - The great to buy with, the small for selling. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Divers weights - אבן ואבן eben vaaben, a stone and a stone, because the weights were anciently made of stone, and some had two sets of stones, a light and a heavy. With the latter they bought their wares, by the former they sold them. In our own country this was once a common case; smooth, round, or oval stones were generally chosen by the simple country people for selling their wares, especially such as were sold in pounds and half pounds. And hence the term a stone weight, which is still in use, though lead or iron be the matter that is used as a counterpoise: but the name itself shows us that a stone of a certain weight was the material formerly used as a weight. See the notes on Lev 19:35, Lev 19:36. |
10 Divers weights [068] [068], and divers measures [0374] [0374], both [08147] of them are alike [01571] abomination [08441] to the LORD [03068].
11 A just [04941] weight [06425] and balance [03976] are the LORD'S [03068]: all the weights [068] of the bag [03599] are his work [04639].
3 Now go [03212] and smite [05221] Amalek [06002], and utterly destroy [02763] all that they have, and spare [02550] them not; but slay [04191] both man [0376] and woman [0802], infant [05768] and suckling [03243], ox [07794] and sheep [07716], camel [01581] and ass [02543].
45 Then the Amalekites [06003] came down [03381], and the Canaanites [03669] which dwelt [03427] in that hill [02022], and smote [05221] them, and discomfited [03807] them, even unto Hormah [02767].
8 Then came [0935] Amalek [06002], and fought [03898] with Israel [03478] in Rephidim [07508].
15 These were dukes [0441] of the sons [01121] of Esau [06215]: the sons [01121] of Eliphaz [0464] the firstborn [01060] son of Esau [06215]; duke [0441] Teman [08487], duke [0441] Omar [0201], duke [0441] Zepho [06825], duke [0441] Kenaz [07073],
16 Duke [0441] Korah [07141], duke [0441] Gatam [01609], and duke [0441] Amalek [06002]: these are the dukes [0441] that came of Eliphaz [0464] in the land [0776] of Edom [0123]; these were the sons [01121] of Adah [05711].
55 But [1161] he turned [4762], and rebuked [2008] them [846], and [2532] said [2036], Ye know [1492] not [3756] what manner [3634] of spirit [4151] ye [5210] are of [2075].
56 For [1063] the Son [5207] of man [444] is [2064] not [3756] come [2064] to destroy [622] men's [444] lives [5590], but [235] to save [4982] them. And [2532] they went [4198] to [1519] another [2087] village [2968].
17 Remember [02142] what Amalek [06002] did [06213] unto thee by the way [01870], when ye were come forth [03318] out of Egypt [04714];
18 How he met [07136] thee by the way [01870], and smote the hindmost [02179] of thee, even all that were feeble [02826] behind [0310] thee, when thou wast faint [05889] and weary [03023]; and he feared [03373] not God [0430].
19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] hath given thee rest [05117] from all thine enemies [0341] round about [05439], in the land [0776] which the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] giveth [05414] thee for an inheritance [05159] to possess [03423] it, that thou shalt blot out [04229] the remembrance [02143] of Amalek [06002] from under heaven [08064]; thou shalt not forget [07911] it.
13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag [03599] divers weights [068] [068], a great [01419] and a small [06996].
23 Divers weights [068] [068] are an abomination [08441] unto the LORD [03068]; and a false [04820] balance [03976] is not good [02896].
10 Divers weights [068] [068], and divers measures [0374] [0374], both [08147] of them are alike [01571] abomination [08441] to the LORD [03068].
11 A just [04941] weight [06425] and balance [03976] are the LORD'S [03068]: all the weights [068] of the bag [03599] are his work [04639].
10 Are there [0786] yet the treasures [0214] of wickedness [07562] [0376] in the house [01004] of the wicked [07563], and the scant [07332] measure [0374] that is abominable [02194]?
11 Shall I count them pure [02135] with the wicked [07562] balances [03976], and with the bag [03599] of deceitful [04820] weights [068]?
5 Saying [0559], When will the new moon [02320] be gone [05674], that we may sell [07666] corn [07668]? and the sabbath [07676], that we may set forth [06605] wheat [01250], making the ephah [0374] small [06994], and the shekel [08255] great [01431], and falsifying [05791] the balances [03976] by deceit [04820]?
10 Ye shall have just [06664] balances [03976], and a just [06664] ephah [0374], and a just [06664] bath [01324].
11 The ephah [0374] and the bath [01324] shall be of one [0259] measure [08506], that the bath [01324] may contain [05375] the tenth part [04643] of an homer [02563], and the ephah [0374] the tenth part [06224] of an homer [02563]: the measure [04971] thereof shall be after the homer [02563].
12 And the shekel [08255] shall be twenty [06242] gerahs [01626]: twenty [06242] shekels [08255], five [02568] and twenty [06242] shekels [08255], fifteen [02568] [06235] shekels [08255], shall be your maneh [04488].
12 Then [1161] came [2064] also [2532] publicans [5057] to be baptized [907], and [2532] said [2036] unto [4314] him [846], Master [1320], what [5101] shall we do [4160]?
35 Ye shall do [06213] no unrighteousness [05766] in judgment [04941], in meteyard [04060], in weight [04948], or in measure [04884].
36 Just [06664] balances [03976], just [06664] weights [068], a just [06664] ephah [0374], and a just [06664] hin [01969], shall ye have: I am the LORD [03068] your God [0430], which brought you out [03318] of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].
36 Just [06664] balances [03976], just [06664] weights [068], a just [06664] ephah [0374], and a just [06664] hin [01969], shall ye have: I am the LORD [03068] your God [0430], which brought you out [03318] of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].
35 Ye shall do [06213] no unrighteousness [05766] in judgment [04941], in meteyard [04060], in weight [04948], or in measure [04884].