Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.
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Genesis 4:3As time passed, Cain brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the ground.
Exodus 3:5He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”
Joshua 5:15The prince of the LORD’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals, for the place on which you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.
1 Samuel 15:21But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the best of the devoted things, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.”
Job 11:2“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?
Psalms 50:8I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
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 →