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 reprove thee not because of thy sacrifice; thy burnt-offerings are always before me.

For if thou hadst pleasure in sacrifice, I would give it thee: but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings.

To do righteousness and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Why offer ye so many sacrifices unto me, sayeth the LORD? I am full of the burnt offerings of weathers, and with the fatness of fed beasts. I have no pleasure in the blood of bullocks, lambs, and goats.

But when I brought your fathers out of Egypt, I spake no word unto them of burnt offerings and sacrifices:

For I have pleasure in loving-kindness, and not in offering: Yea in the knowledge of God, more than in burnt sacrifice.

"'I hate and abhor your holidays, and whereas ye cense me when ye come together I will not accept it.

"What acceptable thing shall I offer unto the LORD? Shall I bow my knee to the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, and with calves of a year old?

Go and learn, what that meaneth: 'I have pleasure in mercy, and not in offering.' For I am not come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance."

Wherefore if ye had wist, what this saying meaneth, 'I require mercy and not sacrifice,' ye would never have condemned innocents.

Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye which tithe mint, anise, and cumin, and leave the weightier matters of the law undone: judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to have left the other undone.

For it is impossible that the blood of oxen, and of goats should take away sins.

Obey

Now therefore if ye will hear my voice and keep mine covenant: ye shall be mine own above all nations, for all the earth is mine.

Be not hasty with thy mouth,

but this I commanded them, saying, 'Hearken and obey my voice, and I shall be your God, and ye shall be my people: so that ye walk in all the ways, which I have commanded you, that ye may prosper.'

which I commanded unto your fathers; what time as I brought them out of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Be obedient unto my voice, and do according to all that I commanded you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God,

Therefore amend your ways, and your advisements, and be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God: so shall the LORD repent of the plague, that he had devised against you.

For I have pleasure in loving-kindness, and not in offering: Yea in the knowledge of God, more than in burnt sacrifice.

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

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the soul, and with all the strength. And to love a man's neighbor as himself, is a greater thing than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."

General references

And Adam answered, "The woman which thou gavest to bear me company, she took me of the tree, and I ate."

And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.

And he said, "Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD: behold, as soon as thou art departed from me a lion shall slay thee." And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him and slew him.

to be avenged of the heathen, and to rebuke the people;

To do righteousness and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Well, I gave thee a king in my wrath, and in my displeasure will I take him from thee again.