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8I will not reprove{H8686)} thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
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For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. …
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith 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 he goats. …
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. …
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-15)God is here dealing with those that placed all their religion in the observances of the ceremonial law, and thought those sufficient. I. He lays down the original contract between him and Israel, in which they had avouched him to be their God, and he them to be his people, and so both parties were agreed (Ps. 50:7): Hear, O my people! and I will speak . Note, It is justly expected that whatever ot…
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