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

It is not concerning [a lack of] your sacrifices [that] I rebuke you, and your burnt offerings [are] before me continually.

For you do not delight [in] sacrifice or I would give [it]. [With] a burnt offering you are not pleased.

Doing righteousness and justice is [more] acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

What [is the] abundance of your sacrifices to me? says Yahweh. I have had enough [of] burnt offerings of rams and [the] fat [of] fattened animals and I do not delight in [the] blood of bulls and ram-lambs and goats.

For I did not speak with your ancestors, nor did I command them in the day of bringing them out from the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offering and sacrifice.

Because I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

"I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your assemblies.

With what shall I approach Yahweh, and bow down to God on high? Shall I approach him with burnt offerings, with bull calves a year old?

But go [and] learn what it means, "I want mercy and not sacrifice." For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

And if you had known what {it means}, 'I want mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you pay a tenth of mint and dill and cumin, and neglect the more important [matters] of the law--justice and mercy and faithfulness! It was necessary to do these [things] {while not neglecting those}.

For [it is] impossible [for] the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Obey

And now if you will carefully listen to my voice and keep my covenant, you will be a treasured possession for me out of all the peoples, {for all the earth is mine},

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; draw near to listen [rather] than to offer a sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.

But I only commanded them this word, {saying}, 'Obey my voice, and I will be to you God, and you will be to me people, and you must walk in all of the way that I command you, so that it goes well with you.'

which I commanded your ancestors in the day of my bringing them from the land of Egypt, from the furnace of iron, {saying}, 'Listen to my voice and do according to all that I command you, {so will you be my people, and I will be your God}.'

Now {therefore} amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and Yahweh will relent of the disaster that he has spoken over you.

Because I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

leave your gift there before the altar and first go be reconciled to your brother, and then come [and] present your gift.

And to love him from your whole heart and from your whole understanding and from your whole strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

General references

And the man replied, "The woman whom you gave [to be] with me--she gave to me from the tree and I ate."

And the {Israelites} did thus; they did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses.

He said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, look, as you now are going from me, a lion will kill you." When he went from beside him, the lion found him and killed him.

to execute vengeance on the nations [and] punishment on [the] peoples,

Doing righteousness and justice is [more] acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

I gave you a king in my anger, and I took [him] in my wrath.