Thematic Bible: Withheld see offerings; withheld


Thematic Bible



This illustration for today indicates that the gifts and sacrifices being offered could not clear the conscience of a worshiper, Verse ConceptsConsciousnessGuilt, Human Aspects OfThe Present AgeBlemished PeopleHuman Awareness Of Guiltconscience

You take no delight in sacrifices and offerings you have prepared my ears to listen you require no burnt offerings or sacrifices for sin. Verse ConceptsEarsTeachablenessGod's DesiresThe Faculty Of HearingSacrificesSacrifice



Indeed, you do not delight in sacrifices, or I would give them, nor do you desire burnt offerings. True sacrifice to God is a broken spirit. A broken and chastened heart, God, you will not despise.

"How do your voluminous sacrifices benefit me?" the LORD is asking. "I've had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts. I don't enjoy the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats. Verse ConceptsMultitudesGoatsBullsBlood Of SacrificesDelighting, Wrong Kinds OfGod, Will OfPleasureNot Pleasing GodMore Than EnoughSacrificesMeat offeringsRewards Of RitualSacrificetired


If you had known what "I want mercy and not sacrifice' means, you would not have condemned the innocent, Verse ConceptsdesiresBurnt offeringNominal ReligionValuing KnowledgeCondemning The InnocentGod's DesiresRight SacrificesThe Need For Mercy

You haven't bought me sweet cane with money, nor have you satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. You have only burdened me with your sins and made me tired with your iniquities. Verse ConceptsFatnessGod, Patience OfOffencePlantsSweetnessFat Of The SacrificesGod Growing Weary

I also learned that the allotments for the descendants of Levi had not been distributed. As a result, the descendants of Levi and singers who were responsible for the service had each left to go back to their fields. Verse ConceptsNeglectChoirsTithesAgricultureTithes And OfferingFarming

They shut the doors to the vestibule of the Temple, extinguished its lamps, and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel in the Holy Place. Verse ConceptsShutting Doors

"Will a person rob God? Yet you are robbing me! But you ask, "How are we robbing you?' "By the tithe and the offering. Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodTithesBringing In The TitheTithes And Offeringcheaters

But then a man named Ananias, with the consent of his wife Sapphira, sold some property. With his wife's full knowledge, he kept back some of the money for himself and brought the remainder and laid it at the apostles' feet.

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