Micah 6:7

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Cross References

2 Kings 16:3

But he walked in the way of the kings of Yisra'el, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Yisra'el.

2 Kings 21:6

He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kings 23:10

He defiled Tofet, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molekh.

2 Kings 3:27

Then he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Yisra'el: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

Job 29:6

when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

Psalm 50:9

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

Psalm 51:16

For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

Psalm 51:18

Do well in your good pleasure to Tziyon. Build the walls of Yerushalayim.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Isaiah 1:1

The vision of Yeshaiyahu the son of Amotz, which he saw concerning Yehudah and Yerushalayim, in the days of `Uzziyah, Yotam, Achaz, and Chizkiyahu, kings of Yehudah.

Isaiah 40:16

Levanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

Jeremiah 19:5

and have built the high places of Ba`al, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Ba`al; which I didn't command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:

Jeremiah 6:20

To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheva, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.

Jeremiah 7:31

They have built the high places of Tofet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn't command, nor did it come into my mind.

Ezekiel 23:37

For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured.

Hosea 5:6

They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Leviticus 18:21

*'You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molekh; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 20:1

The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,

Amos 5:22

Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the shalom offerings of your fat animals.

Philemon 1:12

I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

Judges 11:31

then it shall be, that whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in shalom from the children of `Ammon, it shall be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.

Judges 11:39

It happened at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she was a virgin. It was a custom in Yisra'el,

1 Samuel 15:22

Shemu'el said, Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.