Cross References Who is there among you, that will shut the doors, and will kindle the fire on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will not receive a gift of your hand. Isaiah 1:11 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. Isaiah 1:13 Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked. Jeremiah 14:10 Thus saith the Lord to this people, that have loved to move their feet, and have not rested, and have not pleased the Lord: He will now remember their iniquities, and visit their sins. Jeremiah 14:12 When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if they offer holocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence. Hosea 5:6 With their flocks and with their herds, they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from them. Malachi 1:13 And you have said: Behold of our labour, and you puffed it away, saith the Lord of hosts, and you brought in of rapine the lame, and the sick, and brought in an offering: shall I accept it at your hands, saith the Lord? Malachi 2:12 The Lord will cut off the man that hath done this, both the master, and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering to the Lord of hosts. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Who is there among you, that will shut the doors, and will kindle the fire on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will not receive a gift of your hand. Who. even. Job 1:9-11 And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain? . . . Isaiah 56:11,12 And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds themselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own way, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last. . . . Jeremiah 6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit. Jeremiah 8:10 Therefore will I give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal deceitfully. Micah 3:11 You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. John 10:12 But the hireling and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and flieth: and the wolf casteth and scattereth the sheep, Philippians 2:21 For all seek the things that are their own not the things that are Jesus Christ's. 1 Peter 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre's sake but voluntarily: neither. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with the altar? I have. Isaiah 1:11-15 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. . . . Jeremiah 6:20 To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me. Amos 5:21-24 I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies. . . . Hebrews 10:38 But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul. Context The Polluted Offerings…9And now beseech ye the face of God, that he may have mercy on you, (for by your hand hath this been done,) if by any means he will receive your faces, saith the Lord of hosts. 10Who is there among you, that will shut the doors, and will kindle the fire on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will not receive a gift of your hand.11For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts.… Lexicon “Oh,מִ֤י (mî) Interrogative Strong's Hebrew 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix that one גַם־ (ḡam-) Conjunction Strong's Hebrew 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and of you בָּכֶם֙ (bā·ḵem) Preposition | second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew would shut וְיִסְגֹּ֣ר (wə·yis·gōr) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 5462: To shut up, to surrender the temple doors, דְּלָתַ֔יִם (də·lā·ṯa·yim) Noun - fd Strong's Hebrew 1817: Something swinging, the valve of a, door so that you would no וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no longer kindle תָאִ֥ירוּ (ṯā·’î·rū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 215: To be or become light useless חִנָּ֑ם (ḥin·nām) Adverb Strong's Hebrew 2600: Gratis, devoid of cost, reason, advantage fires on My altar! מִזְבְּחִ֖י (miz·bə·ḥî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 4196: An altar I take no אֵֽין־ (’ên-) Adverb Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle pleasure חֵ֜פֶץ (ḥê·p̄eṣ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 2656: Pleasure, desire, a valuable thing, a matter in you,” בָּכֶ֗ם (bā·ḵem) Preposition | second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew says אָמַר֙ (’ā·mar) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say the LORD יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel of Hosts, צְבָא֔וֹת (ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ) Noun - common plural Strong's Hebrew 6635: A mass of persons, reg, organized for, war, a campaign “and I will accept אֶרְצֶ֥ה (’er·ṣeh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 7521: To be pleased with, to satisfy a, debt no לֹֽא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no offering וּמִנְחָ֖ה (ū·min·ḥāh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 4503: A donation, tribute, a sacrificial offering from your hands.” מִיֶּדְכֶֽם׃ (mî·yeḏ·ḵem) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 3027: A hand Additional Translations “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.”Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nothing? neither do you kindle fire on my altar for nothing. I have no pleasure in you, said the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. Oh that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle fire on mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. Because even among you the doors shall be shut, and one will not kindle the fire of mine altar for nothing, I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will not accept a sacrifice at your hands. Who is there among you that would even shut the doors? and ye would not kindle [fire] on mine altar for nothing. I have no delight in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, neither will I accept an oblation at your hand. Oh that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle fire on mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on my altar for naught. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. "Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand. Who is even among you, And he shutteth the two-leaved doors? Yea, ye do not kindle Mine altar for nought, I have no pleasure in you, said Jehovah of Hosts, And a present I do not accept of your hand. 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