Ecclesiastes 5:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Thy foot

Ready

Give

General references

Leviticus 14:25

Judges 11:30

Bible References

Thy foot

When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”

“Do not come closer,” He said. “Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

So Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord meant when He said:

I will show My holiness

to those who are near Me,
and I will reveal My glory

before all the people.”

But Aaron remained silent.

The commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

But when he became strong, he grew arrogant and it led to his own destruction. He acted unfaithfully against the Lord his God by going into the Lord’s sanctuary to burn incense on the incense altar.

God is greatly feared in the council of the holy ones,
more awe-inspiring than all who surround Him.

When you come to appear before Me,
who requires this from you—
this trampling of My courts?

Don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you look down on the church of God and embarrass those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you for this!

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us hold on to grace. By it, we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Ready

Therefore I immediately sent for you, and you did the right thing in coming. So we are all present before God, to hear everything you have been commanded by the Lord.”

The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.

Give

In the course of time Cain presented some of the land’s produce as an offering to the Lord.

I thought: The Philistines will now descend on me at Gilgal, and I haven’t sought the Lord’s favor. So I forced myself to offer the burnt offering.”

The troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder—the best of what was set apart for destruction—to sacrifice to the Lord your God at Gilgal.”

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices
or for your burnt offerings,
which are continually before Me.

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the Lord,
but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

The sacrifice of a wicked person is detestable—
how much more so
when he brings it with ulterior motives!

When you come to appear before Me,
who requires this from you—
this trampling of My courts?

One slaughters an ox, one kills a man;
one sacrifices a lamb, one breaks a dog’s neck;
one offers a grain offering, one offers pig’s blood;
one offers incense, one praises an idol—
all these have chosen their ways
and delight in their detestable practices.

This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,

For I desire loyalty and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

“I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so you would no longer kindle a useless fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

For if we deliberately sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

General references

After he slaughters the male lamb for the restitution offering, the priest is to take some of the blood of the restitution offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

Jephthah made this vow to the Lord: “If You will hand over the Ammonites to me,