Micah 6:7

New American Bible - revised edition

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with myriad streams of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my crime, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Cross References

2 Kings 16:3

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel; he even immolated his child by fire, in accordance with the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

2 Kings 21:6

He immolated his child by fire. He practiced soothsaying and divination, and reintroduced the consulting of ghosts and spirits. He did much evil in the Lord’s sight and provoked him to anger.

2 Kings 23:10

The king also defiled Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, so that there would no longer be any immolation of sons or daughters by fire in honor of Molech.

2 Kings 3:27

So he took his firstborn, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall. The wrath against Israel was so great that they gave up the siege and returned to their own land.

Job 29:6

When my footsteps were bathed in cream, and the rock flowed with streams of oil.

Psalm 50:9

I will not take a bullock from your house, or he-goats from your folds.

Psalm 51:16

Rescue me from violent bloodshed, God, my saving God, and my tongue will sing joyfully of your justice.

Psalm 51:18

For you do not desire sacrifice or I would give it; a burnt offering you would not accept.

Proverbs 15:8

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

Proverbs 21:3

To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Isaiah 1:1

The vision which Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah 40:16

Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor its animals be enough for burnt offerings.

Jeremiah 19:5

building high places for Baal to burn their children in fire as offerings to Baal—something I never considered or said or commanded.

Jeremiah 6:20

Of what use to me is incense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from far-off lands? Your burnt offerings find no favor with me, your sacrifices do not please me.

Jeremiah 7:31

In the Valley of Ben-hinnom they go on building the high places of Topheth to sacrifice their sons and daughters by fire, something I never commanded or considered.

Ezekiel 23:37

For they committed adultery, and blood covers their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; even the children they bore for me they burnt as food for them.

Hosea 5:6

With their flocks and herds they will go to seek the Lord, but will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

Hosea 6:6

For it is loyalty that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Leviticus 18:21

You shall not offer any of your offspring for immolation to Molech, thus profaning the name of your God. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 20:1

The Lord said to Moses:

Amos 5:22

Even though you bring me your burnt offerings and grain offerings I will not accept them; Your stall-fed communion offerings, I will not look upon them.

Philemon 1:12

I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you.

Judges 11:31

“whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return from the Ammonites in peace shall belong to the Lord. I shall offer him up as a burnt offering.”

Judges 11:39

At the end of the two months she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. She had not had relations with any man. It became a custom in Israel

1 Samuel 15:22

But Samuel said: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to the Lord’s command? Obedience is better than sacrifice, to listen, better than the fat of rams.