Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Parallel translations
- WEB remember all your offerings, and accept your burned sacrifice. Selah.
- BSB May He remember all your gifts and look favorably on your burnt offerings. Selah
- NKJV May He remember all your offerings, And accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah
- NASB May He remember all your meal offerings And accept your burnt offering! Selah
- NLT May he remember all your gifts and look favorably on your burnt offerings. Interlude
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Quick answer
They pray that God will remember the king's offerings and accept his sacrifices. Acceptable worship is the basis on which they seek God's favor.
Overview
The people ask God to look favorably on the king's sacrificial worship as the ground for answering his prayers. 'Selah' invites a reflective pause. Old Testament sacrifices anticipated the one perfect sacrifice of Christ, through whom alone our worship is finally accepted by God (Heb 10:10-14).
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 51:19Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
- 2 Chr 7:1Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
- Acts 10:4And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
- 1 Chr 21:26And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
- Gen 4:4And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
- Eph 5:2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
- Lev 9:24And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
- Isa 60:7All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
- 1 Pet 2:5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
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