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1Sa 15:22 — And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat of rams.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Hath the LORD		Psa 50:8,9; Psa 51:16,17; Pro 21:3; Isa 1:11-17; Jer 7:22,23; Hsa 6:6; Amo 5:21-24; Mic 6:6-8; Mat 9:13; Mat 12:7; Mat 23:23; Hbr 10:4-10
obey		Exd 19:5; Ecc 5:1; Jer 7:23; Jer 11:4,7; Jer 26:13; Hsa 6:6; Mat 5:24; Mar 12:33

Correlating Passages

Hath the LORD

	Psa 50:8	I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, [to have been] continually before me.
	Psa 50:9	I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he goats out of thy folds.
	Psa 51:16	For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give [it]: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
	Psa 51:17	The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
	Pro 21:3	To do justice and judgment [is] more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
	Isa 1:11	To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
	Isa 1:12	When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
	Isa 1:13	Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
	Isa 1:14	Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].
	Isa 1:15	And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
	Isa 1:16	Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
	Isa 1:17	Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
	Jer 7:22	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:
	Jer 7:23	But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
	Hsa 6:6	For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
	Amo 5:21	I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
	Amo 5:22	Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept [them]: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
	Amo 5:23	Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
	Amo 5:24	But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
	Mic 6:6	Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
	Mic 6:7	Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul?
	Mic 6:8	He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
	Mat 9:13	But go ye and learn what [that] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
	Mat 12:7	But if ye had known what [this] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
	Mat 23:23	Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
	Hbr 10:4	For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
	Hbr 10:5	Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
	Hbr 10:6	In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
	Hbr 10:7	Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
	Hbr 10:8	Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered by the law;
	Hbr 10:9	Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
	Hbr 10:10	By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].

obey

	Exd 19:5	Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine:
	Ecc 5:1	Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
	Jer 7:23	But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
	Jer 11:4	Which I commanded your fathers in the day [that] I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
	Jer 11:7	For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day [that] I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, [even] unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
	Jer 26:13	Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
	Hsa 6:6	For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
	Mat 5:24	Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
	Mar 12:33	And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love [his] neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

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Scott, Thomas. "1 Samuel 15:22," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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