Micah 6:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Would the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousand streams of oil? Should I give my firstborn for my transgression, the offspring of my body for my own sin?

Cross References

2 Kings 16:3

but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel.  He even sacrificed his son in the fire,  imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

1 Samuel 15:22

Then Samuel said: Does the Lord   take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the  Lord? Look: to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire faithful love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God  rather than burnt offerings.

Jeremiah 7:31

They have built the high places of Topheth  , in Ben Hinnom Valley  , in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire,  a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought.

2 Kings 23:10

He defiled Topheth,  which is in Ben Hinnom Valley,  so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire  , to Molech.

2 Kings 21:6

He sacrificed his son in the fire,  , practised witchcraft and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists.  He did a huge amount of evil in the Lord’s sight, angering him.

2 Kings 3:27

So he took his firstborn son,  who was to become king in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering on the city wall. Great wrath was on the Israelites, and they withdrew from him and returned to their land.

Isaiah 40:16

Lebanon’s cedars are not enough for fuel, or its animals enough for a burnt offering.

Leviticus 18:21

‘You are not to sacrifice any of your children in the fire  to Molech.  Do not profane the name  of your God; I am the Lord.

Philemon 1:12

I am sending him back to you #– #I am sending my very own heart.  ,

Amos 5:22

Even if you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will have no regard for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.

Ezekiel 23:37

For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; they have committed adultery with their idols. And the children they bore to me they have sacrificed in the fire  as food for the idols.

Jeremiah 19:5

They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, something I have never commanded or mentioned; I never entertained the thought.  ,

Job 29:6

when my feet were bathed in curds and the rock  poured out streams of oil for me!

Judges 11:39

At the end of two months, she returned to her father, and he kept the vow he had made about her. And she had never been intimate with a man. Now it became a custom in Israel

Judges 11:31

whoever comes out the doors of my house to greet me when I return safely from the Ammonites will belong to the Lord, and I will offer that person as a burnt offering.’

Leviticus 20:1

The Lord spoke to Moses:

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the  Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:3

Doing what is righteous and just is more acceptable to the  Lord than sacrifice.

Isaiah 1:1

The vision  concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah  son of Amoz saw during the reigns  of Kings Uzziah,  Jotham,  Ahaz,  and Hezekiah  of Judah.

Hosea 5:6

They go with their flocks and herds to seek the  Lord but do not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

Jeremiah 6:20

What use to me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane  from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please me.