Micah 6:7
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7 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?”(A)
2 Kings 16:3
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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.(A)
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Psalm 51:16
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16 For you have no delight in sacrifice;
if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.(A)
1 Samuel 15:22
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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.(A)
Hosea 6:6
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6 For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.(A)
Jeremiah 7:31
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31 And they go on building the high place[a] 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.(A)
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- 7.31 Gk Tg Vg: Heb high places
Psalm 50:9
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9 I will not accept a bull from your house
or goats from your folds.(A)
2 Kings 23:10
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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.(A)
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2 Kings 21:6
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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.(A)
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Isaiah 40:16
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16 Lebanon would not provide fuel enough,
nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering.]][a]
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- 40.14–16 Q ms lacks Who taught him . . . burnt offering
2 Kings 3:27
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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.(A)
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Leviticus 18:21
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21 You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them[a] to Molech and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.(A)
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- 18.21 Heb to pass them over
Philemon 12
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12 I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you.[a]
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- 12 Other ancient authorities read you; receive him
Amos 5:22
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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.(A)
Ezekiel 23:37
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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.(A)
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Ezekiel 16:20-21
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20 You took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. As if your prostitutions were not enough!(A) 21 You slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering to them.(B)
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Jeremiah 19:5
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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,(A)
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Jeremiah 7:21-22
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21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.(A) 22 For in the day that I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to them or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.(B)
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Isaiah 1:11-15
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11 What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls
or of lambs or of goats.(A)
12 When you come to appear before me,[a]
who asked this from your hand?
Trample my courts no more!(B)
13 Bringing offerings is futile;
incense is an abomination to me.
New moon and Sabbath and calling of convocation—
I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.(C)
14 Your new moons and your appointed festivals
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.(D)
15 When you stretch out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
your hands are full of blood.(E)
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- 1.12 Or see my face
Psalm 10:8-13
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8 They sit in ambush in the villages;
in hiding places they murder the innocent.
Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;(A)
9 they lurk in secret like a lion in its den;
they lurk that they may seize the poor;
they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.(B)
10 They stoop, they crouch,
and the helpless fall by their might.
11 They think in their heart, “God has forgotten;
he has hidden his face; he will never see it.”(C)
12 Rise up, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;
do not forget the oppressed.(D)
13 Why do the wicked renounce God
and say in their hearts, “You will not call us to account”?
Job 29:6
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6 when my steps were washed with milk
and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!(A)
Judges 11:39
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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
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Judges 11:31
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31 then whatever[a] 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.”
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- 11.31 Or whoever
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