Hosea 6:6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
In Context
7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:22And Samuel said, Has 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.
Psalms 50:8I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Ecclesiastes 5:1Keep your foot when you go 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.
Isaiah 58:6Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that all of you break every yoke?
Jeremiah 22:16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.
Hosea 2:20I will even betroth you unto me in faithfulness: and you shall know the LORD.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 6:5-11
Promises and Expostulations; The Crimes of the People. ( b. c. 758.) 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there… Read the whole commentary →