The meaning is: Increase your sacrifices as you will. Add burnt offerings to peace offerings. All is in vain as long as you neglect the indispensab…

Put your burnt offerings. —that is, “Add one kind of sacrifice to another. Offer the victim, and then partake of the sacrificial f…

You have heard what God said to them when they came out of Egypt.

The Prophet here taunts the Jews for being so diligent in their attention to sacrifices, while they had no care for piety. Therefore, he says by wa…

Thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel
The Lord of armies above and below, and the covenant God of the p…

God shows that obedience was required of them. What God commanded was, Hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God. The promise is…

1. First, the prophet sets aside their confidence in sacrifices. He reveals God’s perspective with the words, add burnt offerings to you…