Psalm 51:16

The Scriptures 1998

For You do not desire slaughtering, or I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

‘Why have you despised the Word of יהוה  to do evil in His eyes? You have killed Uriyah the Ḥ

Psalm 40:6

Slaughtering and meal offering You did not desire; You have opened my ears; Burnt offering and sin offering You did not ask for.

Psalm 50:8

“I do not reprove you for your slaughterings, And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

Psalm 51:6

See, You have desired truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You make me know wisdom.

Psalm 71:15

My mouth recounts Your righteousness Your deliverance all the day, Though I do not know their numbers.

Exodus 21:14

“But when a man acts presumptuously against his neighbour, to kill him by treachery, you are to take him even from My altar to die.

Proverbs 15:8

The slaughtering of the wrong ones Is an abomination to יהוה, But the prayer of the straight is His delight.

Proverbs 21:27

The slaughtering of the wrong is an abomination; How much more when he brings it with wickedness!

Jeremiah 7:27

“And you shall speak all these words to them, though they do not listen to you. And you shall also call to them, though they do not answer you.

Hosea 6:6

“For I delight in kindness and not slaughtering, and in the knowledge of Elohim more than burnt offerings.

Numbers 15:27

‘And if a being sins by mistake, then he shall bring a female goat a year old as a sin offering.

Numbers 35:31

‘And take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall certainly be put to death.

Deuteronomy 22:22

“When a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. Thus you shall purge the evil from Yisra’ĕ

1 Samuel 15:22

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