Micah 6:7

Tree of Life Version

Will Adonai be pleased with thousands of rams, with hordes of rivers of oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my belly for the sin of my soul?

Cross References

2 Kings 16:3

Instead he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even made his son pass through the fire, like the abominations of the nations whom Adonai had dispossessed before Bnei-Yisrael.

2 Kings 21:6

He also made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in Adonai’s eyes to provoke Him.

2 Kings 23:10

Next he defiled Topheth, which is in the Ben-hinnom Valley, so that no one might make his son or daughter pass through the fire for Molech.

2 Kings 3:27

Then he took his firstborn son who should have become king in his place and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. And there was great wrath against Israel that they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.

Job 29:6

when my steps were bathed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil.

Psalm 50:9

I have no need of a bull from your house nor goats from your pens.

Psalm 51:16

Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God— God of my salvation. Then my tongue will sing for joy of Your righteousness.

Psalm 51:18

For You would not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it, nor be pleased by burnt offerings.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Adonai, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Adonai 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 is not enough to burn, or its animals enough for a burnt offering.

Jeremiah 19:5

They have built high places for Baal, in order to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal—something I never commanded, nor mentioned, nor did it ever come into My mind.’”

Jeremiah 6:20

Of what use to Me is frankincense coming from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to Me.”

Jeremiah 7:31

They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire—which I did not command, nor did it even enter My mind.

Ezekiel 23:37

For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols and even offered their children, whom they bore for Me, to be devoured.

Hosea 5:6

With their flocks and with their herds they will go to seek Adonai, but they will not find Him— He has withdrawn from them.

Hosea 6:6

For I delight in loyalty and not sacrifice, knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Leviticus 18:21

“You are not to give any of your children in sacrifice to Molech, and defile the Name of your God. I am Adonai.

Leviticus 20:1

Adonai spoke to Moses saying:

Amos 5:22

Even if you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I look at peace offerings of your fattened animals.

Philemon 1:12

I sent him back to you—he is my very heart.

Judges 11:31

then it will be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from the children of Ammon, it will be Adonai’s, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”

Judges 11:39

Then at the end of two months she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow he had made—so she was never intimate with a man. So it became a custom in Israel,

1 Samuel 15:22

Samuel said: “Does Adonai delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Adonai? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay heed than the fat of rams.