Micah 6:7

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Will the Lord be pleased with a thousand rams or with ten thousand rivers of oil? Should I offer him my first child to pay for my wrongs? Should I sacrifice my very own child for my sins?

Cross References

2 Kings 16:3

He did the same bad things the kings of Israel had done. He even burned his son as a sacrifice. He copied the terrible sins of the nations that the Lord had forced to leave the country when the Israelites came.

Psalm 51:16

You don’t really want sacrifices, or I would give them to you.

1 Samuel 15:22

But Samuel answered, “Which pleases the Lord more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obeying his commands? It is better to obey the Lord than to offer sacrifices to him. It is better to listen to him than to offer the fat from rams.

Hosea 6:6

This is because I want faithful love, not sacrifice. I want people to know God, not to bring burnt offerings.

Jeremiah 7:31

The people of Judah built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom where they killed their own sons and daughters and burned them as sacrifices. This is something I never commanded. Something like this never even entered my mind!

Psalm 50:9

Why would I want more bulls from your barns or goats from your pens?

2 Kings 23:10

Topheth was a place in the Valley of Hinnom’s Son where people killed their children and burned them on an altar to honor the false god Molech. Josiah ruined that place so that no one could use it again.

2 Kings 21:6

He sacrificed his own son and burned him on the altar. He used different ways of trying to know the future. He visited mediums and wizards. Manasseh did more and more things that the Lord saw as evil, which made the Lord angry.

2 Kings 3:27

Then the king of Moab took his oldest son, who would become the next king after him. On the wall around the city, the king of Moab offered his son as a burnt offering. This upset the Israelites very much. So the Israelites left the king of Moab and went back to their own land.

Isaiah 40:16

All the trees in Lebanon are not enough to burn on the altar for the Lord. And all the animals in Lebanon are not enough to kill for a sacrifice.

Leviticus 18:21

“You must not give any of your children through the fire to Molech. If you do this, you will show that you don’t respect the name of your God. I am the Lord.

Philemon 1:12

I am sending him back to you, but it’s as hard as losing part of myself.

Amos 5:22

Even if you offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. I will not even look at the fat animals you give as fellowship offerings.

Ezekiel 23:37

They committed the sin of adultery. They are guilty of murder. They acted like prostitutes—they left me to be with their filthy idols. They had my children, but they forced them to pass through fire. They did this to give food to their filthy idols.

Jeremiah 19:5

The kings of Judah built high places for the god Baal. They use those places to burn their sons in the fire. They burned their sons as burnt offerings to the god Baal. I did not tell them to do that. I did not ask them to offer their sons as sacrifices. I never even thought of such a thing.

Job 29:6

Life was so good that I washed my feet in cream and had plenty of the finest oils.

Judges 11:39

At the end of two months, Jephthah’s daughter returned to her father, and Jephthah did what he had promised. His daughter never had sexual relations with anyone. So this became a custom in Israel.

Judges 11:31

I will give you the first thing that comes out of my house when I come back from the victory. I will give it to the Lord as a burnt offering.”

Leviticus 20:1

The Lord said to Moses,

Proverbs 15:8

The Lord hates the offerings of the wicked, but he is happy to hear the prayers of those who live right.

Proverbs 21:3

Do what is right and fair. The Lord loves that more than sacrifices.

Isaiah 1:1

This is the vision of Isaiah son of Amoz. God showed Isaiah what would happen to Judah and Jerusalem. Isaiah saw this during the time when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah.

Hosea 5:6

“The leaders of the people went to look for the Lord. They took their sheep and cattle with them, but they did not find the Lord because he refused to accept them.

Psalm 51:18

God, please be good to Zion. Rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 6:20

“Why do you bring me incense from the country of Sheba? Why do you bring me sweet-smelling cane from a faraway country? Your burnt offerings don’t make me happy. Your sacrifices don’t please me.”