Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
So greedy are they of unjust gain that they cannot spare a single day, however sacred, from pursuing it. They are strangers to God and enemies to themselves, who love market days better than sabbath days; and they who have lost piety will not long keep honesty. The new-2moons (Numbers 10:10) and sabbaths were to be kept without working or trading (Nehemiah 10:31).
set forth wheat--literally, "open out" stores of wheat for sale.
ephah--containing three seahs, or above three pecks.
making . . . small--making it below the just weight to purchasers.
shekel great--taking from purchasers a greater weight of money than was due. Shekels used to be weighed out in payments (Genesis 23:16). Thus they committed a double fraud against the law (Deuteronomy 25:13-14).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Numbers 28:11-15
Ecclesiastes 5:9
Isaiah 43:22
Isaiah 58:13
Hosea 2:11
Amos 8:1
Micah 6:10
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