(A)Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
Ten thousand (B)rivers of oil?
(C)Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
[a]The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

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  1. Micah 6:7 My own child

But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed (A)he made his son pass through the fire, according to the (B)abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel.

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16 For (A)You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it;
You do not delight in burnt offering.

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22 So Samuel said:

(A)“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, (B)to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.

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(A)I will not take a bull from your house,
Nor goats out of your folds.

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For I desire (A)mercy[a] and (B)not sacrifice,
And the (C)knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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  1. Hosea 6:6 Or faithfulness or loyalty

31 And they have built the (A)high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to (B)burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, (C)which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.

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10 And he defiled (A)Topheth, which is in (B)the Valley of the [a]Son of Hinnom, (C)that no man might make his son or his daughter (D)pass through the fire to Molech.

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  1. 2 Kings 23:10 Kt. Sons

(A)Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced (B)soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.

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16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,
Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt offering.

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27 Then (A)he took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall; and there was great [a]indignation against Israel. (B)So they departed from him and returned to their own land.

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  1. 2 Kings 3:27 wrath

21 And you shall not let any of your descendants (A)pass through (B)the fire to (C)Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

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12 I am sending him [a]back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own [b]heart,

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  1. Philemon 1:12 NU back to you in person, that is, my own heart,
  2. Philemon 1:12 See v. 7.

22 (A)Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them,
Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.

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37 For they have committed adultery, and (A)blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons (B)whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them.

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20 (A)“Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter, 21 that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the (B)fire?

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(A)(they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, (B)which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind),

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21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)“Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. 22 (B)For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.

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11 “To what purpose is the multitude of your (A)sacrifices to Me?”
Says the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle.
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
Or of lambs or goats.

12 “When you come (B)to appear before Me,
Who has required this from your hand,
To trample My courts?
13 Bring no more (C)futile[a] sacrifices;
Incense is an abomination to Me.
The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and (D)the calling of assemblies—
I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.
14 Your (E)New Moons and your (F)appointed feasts
My soul hates;
They are a trouble to Me,
I am weary of bearing them.
15 (G)When you [b]spread out your hands,
I will hide My eyes from you;
(H)Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of [c]blood.

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  1. Isaiah 1:13 worthless
  2. Isaiah 1:15 Pray
  3. Isaiah 1:15 bloodshed

He sits in the lurking places of the villages;
In the secret places he murders the innocent;
His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless.
He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den;
He lies in wait to catch the poor;
He catches the poor when he draws him into his net.
10 So [a]he crouches, he lies low,
That the helpless may fall by his [b]strength.
11 He has said in his heart,
“God has forgotten;
He hides His face;
He will never see.”

12 Arise, O Lord!
O God, (A)lift up Your hand!
Do not forget the (B)humble.
13 Why do the wicked renounce God?
He has said in his heart,
“You will not require an account.

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  1. Psalm 10:10 Or he is crushed, is bowed
  2. Psalm 10:10 Or mighty ones

When (A)my steps were bathed with [a]cream,
And (B)the rock poured out rivers of oil for me!

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  1. Job 29:6 So with ancient vss. and a few Heb. mss. (cf. Job 20:17); MT wrath

39 And it was so at the end of two months that she returned to her father, and he (A)carried out his vow with her which he had vowed. She [a]knew no man.

And it became a custom in Israel

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  1. Judges 11:39 Remained a virgin

31 then it will be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the people of Ammon, (A)shall surely be the Lord’s, (B)and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”

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