1 Samuel 15:22

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Summary

And Samuel said, Hath 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 hearken than the fat of rams.

Hath the lord

Obey

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Bible References

Hath the lord

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.

To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Jehovah. I am sated with burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats I take no pleasure.

For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt;

For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will not smell a sweet odour in your solemn assemblies.

Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old?

But go and learn what that is I will have mercy and not sacrifice; for I have not come to call righteous men but sinners.

But if ye had known what is: I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside.

For blood of bulls and goats is incapable of taking away sins.

Obey

And now, if ye will hearken to my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then shall ye be my own possession out of all the peoples for all the earth is mine --

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Hearken unto my voice and do them, according to all that I command you; so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:

And now, amend your ways and your doings, and hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God; and Jehovah will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

leave there thy gift before the altar, and first go, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

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And Man said, The woman, whom thou hast given to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

And the children of Israel did so; according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses, so did they.

Then said he to him, Because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah, behold, when thou departest from me, the lion will slay thee. And when he had departed from him, the lion found him and slew him.

To execute vengeance against the nations, and punishment among the peoples;

To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.