Ecclesiastes 5:1
Be careful when you go into God's house. It's better to listen and respond rather than offer meaningless sacrifices. People who do that don't even know they are doing wrong.
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Genesis 4:3Sometime later Cain brought some of the produce he'd grown as an offering to the Lord.
Exodus 3:5“Don't come any closer!” God told him. “Take off your sandals because you're standing on holy ground.”
Joshua 5:15The commander of the Lord's army told Joshua, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you're standing is holy ground.” Joshua did so.
1 Samuel 15:21The army took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was consecrated to God, to sacrifice them to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”
Job 11:2“So many words should be answered, shouldn't they? Or is a person proved right by doing a lot of talking?
Psalms 50:8I'm not complaining about your sacrifices or burnt offerings that you offer all the time.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 5:1
Solomon, in this chapter, discourses, I. Concerning the worship of God, prescribing that as a remedy against all those vanities which he had already observed to be in wisdom, learning, pleasure, honour, power, and business. That we may not be deceived by those things, nor have our spirits vexed with the disappointments we meet with in them, let us make conscience of our duty to God and keep up our communion with him; but, withal, he gives a necessary caution against the vanities which are too often found in… Read the whole commentary →