May He remember all your meal offerings And accept your burnt offering! Selah
Parallel translations
- WEB remember all your offerings, and accept your burned sacrifice. Selah.
- KJV Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt 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
- 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).
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Cross-references · 9
- Ps 51:19Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
- 2 Chr 7:1Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and Yahweh’s glory filled the house.
- Acts 10:4He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
- 1 Chr 21:26David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
- Gen 4:4Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,
- Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- Lev 9:24Fire came out from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
- Isa 60:7All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house.
- 1 Pet 2:5You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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