Micah 6:7

The worshiper escalates from extravagant sacrifices to the unthinkable offering of his firstborn, seeking to purchase forgiveness. It exposes how sin tempts people to think guilt can be bought away.

Cross-references · 22

• 2 Kgs 16:3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.
• Ps 51:16For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
• 1 Sam 15:22Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
• Hos 6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
• Ps 50:9I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
• 2 Kgs 3:27Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
• Jer 7:31They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.
• 2 Kgs 23:10He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
• 2 Kgs 21:6He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
• Lev 18:21“‘You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech. You shall not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
• Isa 40:16Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
• Ps 10:8–13He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
• Ezek 16:20–21“‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,
• Judg 11:31then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”
• Job 29:6when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
• Ezek 23:37For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.
• Jer 19:5and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn’t command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:
• Phlm 1:12I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
• Jer 7:21–22Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.
• Isa 1:11–15“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
• Judg 11:39At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel
• Amos 5:22Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

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