Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
Sweet cane
Your burnt
Bible References
To what
Psalm 40:6
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
Psalm 50:7
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.
Psalm 66:3
Say unto God, How awesome are you in your works! through the greatness of your power shall your enemies submit themselves unto you.
Isaiah 1:11
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of male goats.
Isaiah 66:3
He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he breaks a dog's neck; he that offers a grain offering, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
Ezekiel 20:39
As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD; Go, serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not hearken unto me: but defile my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
Amos 5:21
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not take delight in your solemn assemblies.
Micah 6:6
With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
Sheba
1 Kings 10:1
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with hard questions.
Isaiah 60:6
The multitude of camels shall cover your land, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD.
Ezekiel 27:22
The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants: they traded in your fairs with the best of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
Sweet cane
Isaiah 43:23
You have not brought me the sheep of your burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with grain offerings, nor wearied you with incense.
Your burnt
Jeremiah 7:21
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Add your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.