Abundance Animals Beasts Best Blood Bullocks Bulls Burned Burnt Burnt-offerings Cattle Delight Desired Fat Fatlings Fattened Fed Full Goats He-goats Lambs Male Multiplied Multitude Offerings Oxen Pleasure Purpose Rams Sacrifices Sated Satiated Says Sheep Weariness
1:11 To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I {s} delight not in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
(s) Although God commanded these sacrifices for a time, as aids and exercises of their faith, yet because the people did not have faith or repentance, God detests them, Ps 50:13, Jer 6:20, Am 5:22, Mic 6:7.
1:11 To me - Who am a spirit, and therefore cannot be satisfied with such carnal oblations, but expect to have your hearts and lives, as well as your bodies and sacrifices, presented unto me. Blood - He mentions the fat and blood, because these were in a peculiar manner reserved for God, to intimate that even the best of their sacrifices were rejected by him.
1:10-15 Judea was desolate, and their cities burned. This awakened them to bring sacrifices and offerings, as if they would bribe God to remove the punishment, and give them leave to go on in their sin. Many who will readily part with their sacrifices, will not be persuaded to part with their sins. They relied on the mere form as a service deserving a reward. The most costly devotions of wicked people, without thorough reformation of heart and life, cannot be acceptable to God. He not only did not accept them, but he abhorred them. All this shows that sin is very hateful to God. If we allow ourselves in secret sin, or forbidden indulgences; if we reject the salvation of Christ, our very prayers will become abomination.
Animals Beasts Blood Bullocks Bulls Burned Burnt Burnt-Offerings Delight Enough Fat Fattened Fed Full Goats He-Goats Lambs Male Multitude Offerings Purpose Rams Sacrifices Sheep Use
Animals Beasts Blood Bullocks Bulls Burned Burnt Burnt-Offerings Delight Enough Fat Fattened Fed Full Goats He-Goats Lambs Male Multitude Offerings Purpose Rams Sacrifices Sheep Use
