Jeremiah 7:22 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 7:22

For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices:

KJV

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

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Commentary

2 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"I will have mercy, and not sacrifice" (1Sa 15:22). Love to God is the supreme end, external observances only means towards that end. "The mere sacrifice was not so much what I commanded, as the sincere submission to My will gives to the sacrifice all its virtue" [MAGEE, Atonement, Note 57].

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He appeals to the original contract, by which they were first formed into a people, when they were brought out of Egypt. God made them a kingdom of priests to himself, not that he might be regaled with their sacrifices, as the devils, whom the heathen worshipped, which are represented as eating with pleasure the fat of their sacrifices and drinking the wine of their drink-offerings, Deut. xxxii.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֠י	ki	for	H3588 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
דִבַּ֤רְתִּי	di.Bar.ti	I spoke	H1696 →
אֶת־	'et-	with	H854 →
אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙	'a.vo.tei.Khem	ancestors your	H1 →
וְלֹ֣א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
צִוִּיתִ֔ים	tzi.vi.Tim	I commanded them	H6680 →
בְּי֛וֹם	be.Yom	on [the] day	H3117 →
הוֹצִיאִ֥י	ho.tzi'	brought out I	H3318 →
אוֹתָ֖ם	'o.Tam	<obj.> them	H853 →
מֵאֶ֣רֶץ	me.'E.retz	from [the] land of	H776 →
מִצְרָ֑יִם	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
דִּבְרֵ֥י	div.Rei	matters of	H1697 →
עוֹלָ֖ה	o.Lah	burnt offering	H5930 →
וָזָֽבַח׃	va.Za.vach	and sacrifice	H2077 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 15:22
But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of…
leads to
- Hosea 6:6
  For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 21:3
  To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 51:16–17
  For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
- Amos 5:21–24
  “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
- Mark 12:33
  and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and…
Through
Matthew 9:13
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
leads to
- Mark 2:17
  On hearing this, Jesus told them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
- Matthew 12:7
  If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 19:10
  For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”