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Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat you flesh.
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A Divine Taunt
Commentators unanimously interpret this verse not as a literal command, but as a sharp, sarcastic rebuke. God is essentially saying, "Go ahead, pile on more sacrifices! It's all meaningless to Me. You might as well just eat the meat, because without a repentant and obedient heart, your religious rituals are just profane feasts for yourselves."
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Put your burnt offerings. —that is, “Add one kind of sacrifice to another. Offer the victim, and then partake of the sacrificial f…
Baptist
You have heard what God said to them when they came out of Egypt.
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16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
First, the prophet sets aside their confidence in sacrifices. He reveals God’s perspective with the words, add burnt offerings to you…
