Lexicon :: Strong's H2076 - zāḇaḥ

“Whoever offers a thanksgiving sacrifice honors me,

and whoever orders his conduct,

I will show him the salvation of God.”

I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you.

I will praise your name, LORD,

because it is good.

They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.

Let them offer thanksgiving sacrifices

and announce his works with shouts of joy.

I will offer you a thanksgiving sacrifice

and call on the name of the LORD.

Everything is the same for everyone: There is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad,[fn] for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so also it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who takes an oath, so also for the one who fears an oath.

You have placed your bed

on a high and lofty mountain;

you also went up there to offer sacrifice.

“These people continually anger me

to my face,

sacrificing in gardens,

burning incense on bricks,

One person slaughters an ox, another kills a person;

one person sacrifices a lamb, another breaks a dog’s neck;

one person offers a grain offering, another offers pig’s blood;

one person offers incense, another praises an idol —

all these have chosen their ways

and delight in their abhorrent practices.

“ ‘You even took your sons and daughters you bore to me and sacrificed them to these images as food. Wasn’t your prostitution enough?

“When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offerings there. They also sent up their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offerings there.

“You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened animals, but you do not tend the flock.

“Son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Tell every kind of bird and all the wild animals, ‘Assemble and come! Gather from all around to my sacrificial feast that I am slaughtering for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel; you will eat flesh and drink blood.

They sacrifice on the mountaintops,

and they burn offerings on the hills,

and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,

because their shade is pleasant.

And so your daughters act promiscuously

and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

Though they offer sacrificial gifts[fn]

and eat the flesh,

the LORD does not accept them.

Now he will remember their guilt

and punish their sins;

they will return to Egypt.

Israel called to the Egyptians

even as Israel was leaving them.[fn]

They kept sacrificing to the Baals

and burning offerings to idols.

Since Gilead is full of evil,

they will certainly come to nothing.

They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;

even their altars will be like piles of rocks

on the furrows of a field.

Now they continue to sin

and make themselves a cast image,

idols skillfully made from their silver,

all of them the work of craftsmen.

People say about them,

“Let the men who sacrifice[fn] kiss the calves.”

The men were seized by great fear of the LORD, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.

but as for me, I will sacrifice to you

with a voice of thanksgiving.

I will fulfill what I have vowed.

Salvation[fn] belongs to the LORD.

That is why they sacrifice to their dragnet

and burn incense to their fishing net,

for by these things their portion is rich

and their food plentiful.

Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of Armies. All who sacrifice will come and use the pots to cook in. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite[fn] in the house of the LORD of Armies.

“When you present a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present a lame or sick animal, is it not wrong? Bring it to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor? ” asks the LORD of Armies.