'Sacrifices' in the Bible

So God turned from them and gave them up to the worship of the Host of Heaven, as it is written in the Book of the Prophets, "'Were they victims and sacrifices which you offered Me, forty years in the Desert, O House of Israel?

And the priest of Zeus--the temple of Zeus being at the entrance to the city--brought bullocks and garlands to the gates, and in company with the crowd was intending to offer sacrifices to them.

Even with words like these they had difficulty in preventing the thronging crowd from offering sacrifices to them.

"Now after an interval of several years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices.