1Sa 15:22, Psa 10:8-13, 50:9, 51:16, Isa 1:11-15, 40:16, Jer 7:21-22 | ESV | STEP | And Samuel said , Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices , as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold , to obey is better than sacrifice , and to listen than the fat of rams .

v[See ver. 13 above]

1 Samuel 15:22

22 And Samuel said,

^a“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, ^bto obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.

Psalms 10:8-13

8 He sits in ambush in the villages;
in ^chiding places he murders the innocent.
His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
9 he lurks in ambush like ^da lion in his ^ethicket;
he ^flurks that he may seize the poor;
he seizes the poor when he draws him into his ^gnet.
10 The helpless are crushed, sink down,
and fall by his might.
11 He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,
he has ^hhidden his face, he ⁱwill never see it.”
12 ^jArise, O Lord; O God, ^klift up your hand;
^lforget not the afflicted.
13 Why does the wicked ^mrenounce God
and say in his heart, “You will not ⁿcall to account”?

Psalms 50:9

9 I will not accept a bull from your house
or goats from your folds.

Psalms 51:16

16 ^oFor you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.

Isaiah 1:11-15

11 ^p“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 well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats.
12 “When you come to ^qappear before me,
who has required of you
this trampling of my courts?
13 Bring no more vain offerings;
incense is an abomination to me.
^rNew moon and Sabbath and the ^scalling of convocations—
I cannot endure ^tiniquity and ^usolemn assembly.
14 Your ^vnew moons and your appointed feasts
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you ^wspread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
^xeven though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
^yyour hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 40:16

16 Lebanon would not suffice for fuel,
nor are ^zits beasts enough for a burnt offering.

Jeremiah 7:21-22

21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^aa“Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. 22 For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them ^abconcerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.