Is Jehovah pleased with thousands of rams? With myriads of streams of oil? Do I give my first-born for my transgression? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?Micah 6:7 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleWill the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams - These might be procured, though with difficulty; but conscience says neither will these do.
With ten thousands of rivers of oil - This is absurd and impossible; but could even these be procured, could they all make atonement for such guilt, and ingratitude, and rebellion?
Shall I give my first-born for my transgression - This was sinful and wicked; but such offerings had been made by the Phoenicians, and their successors the Carthaginians, and this very custom was copied by the corrupt Israelites. See some cases of such offerings, 2 Kings 3:27 (note); Leviticus 20:27 (note).
The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? - This clause is an explanation of the former. Shall I make the first-born, the best and goodliest of my children, חטאת chattath, a Sin-Offering for my soul? And thus the original is used in a multitude of places.
When they had put all these questions to their reason and conscience, they found no satisfaction; their distraction is increased, and despair is about to take place, when Jehovah, the plaintiff, in his mercy interposes:
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pleased.
1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold...
Psalm 10:8-13 He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent...
Psalm 50:9 I will take no bullock out of your house, nor he goats out of your folds.
Psalm 51:16 For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering.
Isaiah 1:11-15 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? said the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams...
Isaiah 40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
Jeremiah 7:21,22 Thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh...
Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Amos 5:22 Though you offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them...
rivers.
Job 29:6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
shall.
Judges 11:31,39 Then it shall be, that whatever comes forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon...
2 Kings 3:27 Then he took his oldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall...
2 Kings 16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire...
2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards...
2 Kings 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom...
Jeremiah 7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom...
Jeremiah 19:5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not...
Ezekiel 16:20,21 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured...
Ezekiel 23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery...
body. Heb. belly.
Philemon 1:12 Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, that is, my own bowels:
Micah 6:7 Parallel Commentaries
Acts Body Child Delight Disobedience First Firstborn First-Born Fruit Myriads Offer Oil Pleased Present Rams Rebellious Rivers Sheep Sin Soul Streams Ten Tens Thousand Thousands Transgression WrongdoingActs Body Child Delight Disobedience First Firstborn First-Born Fruit Myriads Offer Oil Pleased Present Rams Rebellious Rivers Sheep Sin Soul Streams Ten Tens Thousand Thousands Transgression WrongdoingTHE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica®.Micah 6:7 Mobile Bible
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