Bible Cross References
pleased
1 Samuel 15:22
Samuel said, "Which does the LORD prefer: obedience or offerings and sacrifices? It is better to obey him than to sacrifice the best sheep to him.
Psalm 10:8-13
8
They hide themselves in the villages, waiting to murder innocent people. They spy on their helpless victims;
9
they wait in their hiding place like lions. They lie in wait for the poor; they catch them in their traps and drag them away.
10
The helpless victims lie crushed; brute strength has defeated them.
11
The wicked say to themselves, "God doesn't care! He has closed his eyes and will never see me!"
12
O LORD, punish those wicked people! Remember those who are suffering!
13
How can the wicked despise God and say to themselves, "He will not punish me"?
Psalm 50:9
And yet I do not need bulls from your farms or goats from your flocks;
Psalm 51:16
You do not want sacrifices, or I would offer them; you are not pleased with burnt offerings.
Isaiah 1:11-15
11
He says, "Do you think I want all these sacrifices you keep offering to me? I have had more than enough of the sheep you burn as sacrifices and of the fat of your fine animals. I am tired of the blood of bulls and sheep and goats.
12
Who asked you to bring me all this when you come to worship me? Who asked you to do all this tramping around in my Temple?
13
It's useless to bring your offerings. I am disgusted with the smell of the incense you burn. I cannot stand your New Moon Festivals, your Sabbaths, and your religious gatherings; they are all corrupted by your sins.
14
I hate your New Moon Festivals and holy days; they are a burden that I am tired of bearing.
15
"When you lift your hands in prayer, I will not look at you. No matter how much you pray, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with blood.
Isaiah 40:16
All the animals in the forests of Lebanon are not enough for a sacrifice to our God, and its trees are too few to kindle the fire.
Jeremiah 7:21
"My people, some sacrifices you burn completely on the altar, and some you are permitted to eat. But what I, the LORD, say is that you might as well eat them all.
Jeremiah 7:22
I gave your ancestors no commands about burnt offerings or any other kinds of sacrifices when I brought them out of Egypt.
Hosea 6:6
I want your constant love, not your animal sacrifices. I would rather have my people know me than burn offerings to me.
Amos 5:22
When you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will not accept the animals you have fattened to bring me as offerings.
rivers
Job 29:6
My cows and goats gave plenty of milk, and my olive trees grew in the rockiest soil.
shall
Judges 11:31
I will burn as an offering the first person that comes out of my house to meet me, when I come back from the victory. I will offer that person to you as a sacrifice."
Judges 11:39
After two months she came back to her father. He did what he had promised the LORD, and she died still a virgin. This was the origin of the custom in Israel
2 Kings 3:27
So he took his oldest son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him on the city wall as a sacrifice to the god of Moab. The Israelites were terrified and so they drew back from the city and returned to their own country.
2 Kings 16:3
and followed the example of the kings of Israel. He even sacrificed his own son as a burnt offering to idols, imitating the disgusting practice of the people whom the LORD had driven out of the land as the Israelites advanced.
2 Kings 21:6
He sacrificed his son as a burnt offering. He practiced divination and magic and consulted fortunetellers and mediums. He sinned greatly against the LORD and stirred up his anger.
2 Kings 23:10
King Josiah also desecrated Topheth, the pagan place of worship in Hinnom Valley, so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter as a burnt offering to the god Molech.
Jeremiah 7:31
In Hinnom Valley they have built an altar called Topheth, so that they can sacrifice their sons and daughters in the fire. I did not command them to do this---it did not even enter my mind.
Jeremiah 19:5
and they have built altars for Baal in order to burn their children in the fire as sacrifices. I never commanded them to do this; it never even entered my mind.
Ezekiel 16:20
"Then you took the sons and the daughters you had borne me and offered them as sacrifices to idols. Wasn't it bad enough to be unfaithful to me,
Ezekiel 16:21
without taking my children and sacrificing them to idols?
Ezekiel 23:37
They have committed adultery and murder---adultery with idols and murder of the children they bore me. They sacrificed my children to their idols.
body
Philemon 1:12
I am sending him back to you now, and with him goes my heart.