Micah 6:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, 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 Israel. He even made his son pass through fire, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the people of Israel.

2 Kings 21:6

He made his son pass through fire; he practiced soothsaying and augury and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

2 Kings 23:10

He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of Ben-hinnom, so that no one would make a son or a daughter pass through fire as an offering to Molech.

2 Kings 3:27

Then he took his firstborn son who was to succeed him and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. And great wrath came upon Israel, so they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.

Job 29:6

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

Psalm 50:9

I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds.

Psalm 51:16

For you have no delight in sacrifice; if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.

Psalm 51:18

Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem;

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 righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Isaiah 1:1

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

Isaiah 40:16

Lebanon would not provide fuel enough, nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering.]]

Jeremiah 19:5

and gone on building the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it enter my mind,

Jeremiah 6:20

Of what use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.

Jeremiah 7:31

And they go on building the high place of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire—which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

Ezekiel 23:37

For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; with their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.

Hosea 5:6

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

Hosea 6:6

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

Leviticus 18:21

You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them to Molech and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 20:1

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Amos 5:22

Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them, and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals I will not look upon.

Philemon 1:12

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

Judges 11:31

then whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the Lord’s, to be offered up by me as a burnt offering.”

Judges 11:39

At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to the vow he had made. She had never slept with a man. So there arose an Israelite custom that

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obedience to the voice of the Lord? Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice and to heed than the fat of rams.