Psalm 51:16

The Scriptures 2009

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you despised the Word of יהוה to do evil in His eyes? You have struck Uriyah the Ḥittite with the sword, and his wife you took to be your wife, and you have killed him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Psalm 40:6

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

Psalm 50:8

I do not reprove you for your slaughterings, And your ascending 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 slaughter-place 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 loving-commitment and not slaughtering, and in the knowledge of Elohim more than ascending 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’ĕl.

1 Samuel 15:22

Then Shemu’ĕl said, “Does יהוה delight in ascending offerings and slaughterings, as in obeying the voice of יהוה? Look, to obey is better than a slaughtering, to heed is better than the fat of rams.