Micah 6:7 Cross References

Micah 6:7

7: Should we offer him thousands of rams and tens of thousands of rivers of olive oil? Would that please the LORD? Should we sacrifice our firstborn children to pay for the sins of our souls? Would that make him glad?

2 Kings 16:3

  1. Instead, he followed the example of the kings of Israel, even sacrificing his own son in the fire. He imitated the detestable practices of the pagan nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites.

1 Samuel 15:22

  1. But Samuel replied, "What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Obedience is far better than sacrifice. Listening to him is much better than offering the fat of rams.

Psalms 51:16

  1. You would not be pleased with sacrifices, or I would bring them. If I brought you a burnt offering, you would not accept it.

Psalms 50:9

  1. But I want no more bulls from your barns; I want no more goats from your pens.

2 Kings 23:10

  1. Then the king defiled the altar of Topheth in the valley of Ben-hinnom, so no one could ever again use it to sacrifice a son or daughter in the fire as an offering to Molech.

Isaiah 40:16

  1. All Lebanon's forests do not contain sufficient fuel to consume a sacrifice large enough to honor him. All Lebanon's sacrificial animals would not make an offering worthy of our God.

2 Kings 21:6

  1. Manasseh even sacrificed his own son in the fire. He practiced sorcery and divination, and he consulted with mediums and psychics. He did much that was evil in the LORD's sight, arousing his anger.

Jeremiah 7:31

  1. They have built the pagan shrines of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, where they sacrifice their little sons and daughters in the fire. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing!

Hosea 6:6

  1. I want you to be merciful; I don't want your sacrifices. I want you to know God; that's more important than burnt offerings.

2 Kings 3:27

  1. So he took his oldest son, who would have been the next king, and sacrificed him as a burnt offering on the wall. As a result, the anger against Israel was great, so they withdrew and returned to their own land.

Leviticus 18:21

  1. "Do not give any of your children as a sacrifice to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

Isaiah 1:11

  1. "I am sick of your sacrifices," says the LORD. "Don't bring me any more burnt offerings! I don't want the fat from your rams or other animals. I don't want to see the blood from your offerings of bulls and rams and goats.
  2. Why do you keep parading through my courts with your worthless sacrifices?
  3. The incense you bring me is a stench in my nostrils! Your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath day, and your special days for fasting--even your most pious meetings--are all sinful and false. I want nothing more to do with them.
  4. I hate all your festivals and sacrifices. I cannot stand the sight of them!
  5. From now on, when you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen. For your hands are covered with the blood of your innocent victims.

Ezekiel 23:37

  1. They have committed both adultery and murder--adultery by worshiping idols and murder by burning their children as sacrifices on their altars.

Judges 11:39

  1. When she returned home, her father kept his vow, and she died a virgin. So it has become a custom in Israel

Jeremiah 7:21

  1. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Away with your burnt offerings and sacrifices! Eat them yourselves!
  2. When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not burnt offerings and sacrifices I wanted from them.

Job 29:6

  1. In those days my cows produced milk in abundance, and my olive groves poured out streams of olive oil.

Judges 11:31

  1. I will give to the LORD the first thing coming out of my house to greet me when I return in triumph. I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering."

Jeremiah 19:5

  1. They have built pagan shrines to Baal, and there they burn their sons as sacrifices to Baal. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing!

Ezekiel 16:20

  1. "Then you took your sons and daughters--the children you had borne to me--and sacrificed them to your gods. Was it not enough that you should be a prostitute?
  2. Must you also slaughter my children by sacrificing them to idols?

Philemon 1:12

  1. I am sending him back to you, and with him comes my own heart.

Psalms 10:8

  1. They lurk in dark alleys, murdering the innocent who pass by. They are always searching for some helpless victim.
  2. Like lions they crouch silently, waiting to pounce on the helpless. Like hunters they capture their victims and drag them away in nets.
  3. The helpless are overwhelmed and collapse; they fall beneath the strength of the wicked.
  4. The wicked say to themselves, "God isn't watching! He will never notice!"
  5. Arise, O LORD! Punish the wicked, O God! Do not forget the helpless!

Amos 5:22

  1. I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won't even notice all your choice peace offerings.
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