Hosea 12:7

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(12-8) Sama seperti Kanaan, dengan neraca palsu di tangannya, dan suka memeras,

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(12-8) Sama seperti Kanaan, dengan neraca palsu di tangannya, dan suka memeras,

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Maka sebab itu hendaklah engkau bertobat kepada Allahmu; peliharakanlah olehmu kebajikan dan kebenaran dan haraplah senantiasa pada Allahmu.

Contextual Overview

⁷ [He is] Chanaan, the ballaunces of deceipt are in his hande, he loueth to oppresse. ⁸ And Ephraim hath sayde, Tushe I am riche, I haue good enough: in all my workes shall not one iniquitie be founde wherin I haue offended. ⁹ Yet am I the Lorde thy God from the lande of Egypt, I wyll yet make thee dwell in the tabernacles as in the hye feast dayes. ¹⁰ I haue spoken through the prophetes, and haue multiplied visions, & shewed similitudes by the ministerie of the prophetes. ¹¹ In Galaad is iniquitie, they are fallen to vanitie: at Gilgal they haue sacrificed oxen, & their aulters are as heapes in the furrowes of the fielde. ¹² Iacob fled into the lande of Syria, and Israel serued for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheepe.] ¹³ By a prophete the Lorde brought them out of Egypt, and by a prophete was he preserued. ¹⁴ But Ephraim hath prouoked him to displeasure through his abhominations, therfore shall his blood be powred vpon him selfe, and the Lorde his God shall rewarde him his blasphemies.

Bible Verse Review
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a merchant: or, Canaan, Ezekiel 16:3, Zechariah 14:21, John 2:16

the balances: Leviticus 19:35, Leviticus 19:36, Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 16:11, Amos 8:5, Amos 8:6, Micah 6:10, Micah 6:11, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10

he loveth: Isaiah 3:5, Ezekiel 22:29, Amos 2:7, Amos 3:9, Amos 4:1, Amos 5:11, Micah 2:1, Micah 3:1-3, Micah 7:2, Malachi 3:5, James 5:4

oppress: or, deceive, 1 Samuel 12:3

Reciprocal: Psalms 10:3 - and blesseth Psalms 36:2 - For he Psalms 52:7 - strengthened Psalms 73:12 - they Proverbs 20:14 - It is naught Proverbs 20:23 - a false balance Isaiah 10:14 - And my Isaiah 23:11 - against the merchant city Isaiah 23:17 - and she shall Jeremiah 5:27 - so are Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Ezekiel 18:12 - oppressed Ezekiel 28:5 - and by Ezekiel 28:16 - the multitude Hosea 11:12 - compasseth Zephaniah 1:11 - all the Mark 11:17 - a den Luke 19:46 - General Acts 19:25 - ye know Acts 24:26 - hoped Revelation 18:15 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
And Noah builded an aulter vnto ye Lorde, and tooke of euery cleane beast, and of euery cleane foule, & offred burnt offering on the aulter

Genesis 12:8
And remouyng thence vnto a mountayne that was eastwarde from Bethel, he pitched his tent, hauyng Bethel on the west syde, & Hai on the east: and there he buyldyng an aulter vnto the Lorde, dyd call vpon the name of the Lorde.

Genesis 12:9
And Abram toke his iourney, goyng and iourneying towarde the south.

Genesis 12:12
Therfore shall it come to passe, that when the Egyptians see thee, they shall say, she is his wyfe, and they wyll kyll me, but they wyll saue thee aliue:

Genesis 13:4
Euen vnto the place of the aulter whiche he had made there at the first, and there Abram called on the name of the Lorde.

Genesis 13:15
For all the lande whiche thou seest, wyll I geue vnto thee, and to thy seede for euer.

Genesis 13:18
Then Abram taking downe his tent, came and dwelled in the playne of Mamre, which is in Hebron, & buylded there an aulter vnto the Lorde.

Genesis 15:18
In that same day the Lorde made a couenaunt with Abram, saying: vnto thy seede haue I geuen this lande, fro the ryuer of Egypt, euen vnto the great ryuer, the ryuer of Euphrates.

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninetie yere olde and nine, the Lorde appeared to hym, and sayde vnto hym: I am the almightie God, walke before me, and be thou perfect.

Genesis 17:3
And Abram fell on his face, & God talked with hym, saying:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[He is] a merchant,.... Here is a change of person from "thou" to "he", from Judah to Ephraim, who is said to be a "merchant"; and if that was all, there is nothing worthy of dispraise in it; but he was a cheating merchant, a fraudulent dealer, as appears by what follows: or he is Canaan, or a Canaanite y; more like a descendant of Canaan, by his manners, than a descendant of Jacob. But the Canaanites dealing much in merchandise, their name became a common name for a merchant, as a Chaldean for an astrologer; and as the children of Israel possessed their land, so they followed the same business and employment of life; which, had they performed honestly, would not have been to their discredit; but they were too much like the Canaanites, of whom Philostratus z says, they were covetous and fraudulent; and this was Ephraim's character. The Targum is,

"be you not as merchants;''

the balances of deceit [are] in his hand; he used false weights and measures; made the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsified the balances by deceit; had wicked balances, and deceitful weights, and the scant measure, which is abominable, Amos 8:5; they pretended to weigh everything exactly they bought or sold; but cheated either by sleight or hand, holding the balances as they should not; or had one pair of scales and weights to buy with, and another to sell by, contrary to the law of God, Leviticus 19:35;

he loveth to oppress; instead of keeping and doing mercy and justice, they oppressed the poor, ground their faces, defrauded them of their due, and by secret and private methods cheated them in their dealings with them, and brought them to poverty and distress; and this they took delight and pleasure in, which showed a want of a principle of honesty in them, and that they were habituated to such a course of life, and were hardened in it, and had no remorse of conscience for it, but rather gloried in it.

y כנען χανααν, Sept. "Chanaan", V. L. Tigurine version; "Chanauaeum" refers, Munster. z Apud Grotium in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He is a merchant - Or, indignantly, “a merchant in whose hands are the balances of deceit!” How could they love “mercy and justice,” whose trade was “deceit,” who weighed out deceit with their goods? False in their dealings, in their weights and measures, and, by taking advantage of the necessities of others, oppressive also. Deceit is the sin of weakness oppression is the abuse of power. Wealth does not give the power to use naked violence but wealthy covetousness manifoldly grinds the poor. When for instance, wages are paid in necessaries priced exorbitantly, or when artisans are required to buy at a loss at their masters’ shops, what is it but the union of deceit and oppression? The trading world is full of oppression, scarcely veiled by deceit. “He loveth to oppress.” Deceit and oppression have, each, a devilish attractiveness to those practiced in them; deceit, as exercising cleverness, cunning, skill in overreaching, outwitting; oppression, as indulging self will, caprice, love of power, insolence, and the like vices. The word “merchant,” as the prophet spoke it, was “Canaan;” merchants being so called, because the Canaanites or Phoenicians were the then great merchant-people, as astrologers were called Chaldeans. The Phoenicians were, in Homer’s time, infamous for their griping in traffic. They are called “gnawers” and “money-lovers” . To call Israel, “Canaan,” was to deny to him any title to the name of Israel, “reversing the blessing of Jacob, so that, as it had been said of Jacob, “thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel,” he would in fact say, ‘Thy name shall be called no more Israel, but Canaan’; as being, through their deeds, heirs, not to the blessings of Israel but to the curse of Canaan.” So Ezekiel saith, “Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite” Ezekiel 16:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 12:7. He is a merchant — Or a Canaanite; referring to the Phoenicians, famous for their traffic. Ephraim is as corrupt as those heathenish traffickers were. He kept, as many in all ages have done, a weight and a weight; a heavy one to buy with and a light one to sell by.