Obedience Trumps Sacrifice

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This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!

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For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,

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but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.

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Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

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From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.

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Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

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When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.

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Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.

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