fSee 1 Kgs. 10:1
Psalms 51:16-17
16 aFor you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17The sacrifices of God are ba broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Proverbs 21:3
3 cTo do righteousness and justiceis more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Jeremiah 6:20
20 dWhat use to me is efrankincense that comes from fSheba,or sweet cane from a distant land?
gYour burnt offerings are not acceptable,
nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
Jeremiah 7:21-23
21Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: h“Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. 22For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them iconcerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23But this command I gave them: j‘Obey my voice, and kI will be your God, and you shall be my people. lAnd walk in all the way that I command you, mthat it may be well with you.’Jeremiah 14:12
12Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, nand though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them oby the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”Amos 5:21-24
21 p“I hate, I despise your feasts,and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
22 qEven though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
and the peace offerings of your fattened animals,
I will not look upon them.
23Take away from me the noise of your songs;
to rthe melody of your harps I will not listen.
24But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
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