(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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Footnotes

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

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