Jeremiah 7:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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:

Jeremiah 7:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 6:6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
1 Samuel 15:22
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.
Psalms 51:16-17
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. …
Psalms 40:6
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Psalms 50:8-17
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. …

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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 on…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22. Not contradicting the divine obligation of the legal sacrifices. But, “I did not require sacrifices, unless combined with moral obedience” (Psa 50:8; 51:16, 17). The superior claim of the moral above the positive precepts of the law was marked by the ten commandments having been delivered first, and by the two tables of stone being deposited alone in the ark (De 5:6). The negative in Hebrew of…