22For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
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For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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.
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. …
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-28)God, having shown the people that the temple would not protect them while they polluted it with their wickedness, here shows them that their sacrifices would not atone for them, nor be accepted, while they went on in disobedience. See with what contempt he here speaks of their ceremonial service (Jer. 7:21). “ Put your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices ; go on in them as long as you please; add o…
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