| David Laing - 1854 - 208 pages
...(ver. 29,) we find Him marking these sacrifices as not superseding obedience, as below obedience— " Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings...Lord ? Behold ! to obey is better than sacrifice; and to hearken than the fat of rams." (ch. xv. 22.) Why, then, any sacrifice at all ? And this Israel,—why... | |
| John Stow - 1854 - 850 pages
...of their fraud : but for these things will not The LORI1 Visit ? For, as said the Prophet Samuel, " lled the Circumcision in the Flesh made by hands ; that at that time ; and to hearken than the fat of rams ! " — 1 Sara. n. 22. And the Wisest of Men, who was DIVINELY... | |
| Moses Stuart - 1855 - 278 pages
...the sheep and of the oxen, for a sacrifice unto the Lord ; but what said Samuel to him 1 " Hath t}ie Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,...the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearkea, than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is... | |
| Rev. Henry Ives Bailey - 1857 - 870 pages
...his presence with singing. Psal. c. 2. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Matt. vi. 10. Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings...the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 1 Sam. xv. 22. Amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice... | |
| 1857 - 452 pages
...before his presence with singing. Ps. c. 2. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Matt. vi. 10. Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings...the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 1 Sam. xv. 22. Amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice... | |
| Jules Simon - 1857 - 320 pages
...humanity, separates himself from his kind, who lives only for himself, content to do no positive ill, * " Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings...the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, aud to hearken than the fat of rams." — 1 Samuel, xv. 22. t " External ceremonies are nothing more... | |
| Jules Simon - 1857 - 344 pages
...humanity, separates himself from his kind, who lives only for himself, content to do no positive ill, * " Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings...the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, aud to hearken than the fat of rams."—1 Samuel, xv. 22. t " External ceremonies are nothing more... | |
| Jonathan Bayley (Rev. DD.) - 1858 - 660 pages
...same truth to Saul, when the unhappy king thought he would be sure to do right if he sacrificed: " Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings...the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams."—1 Sam. xv. 22. The proposition now We have observed, that... | |
| Hosea Ballou - 1859 - 228 pages
...were such as were offered on the altar. To strengthen this view, see 1 Sam. xv. 22: "And Samuel bdid, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings...the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice; and to hearken than the fat of rams." What we are in search of, is fully comprised in the following... | |
| William Dexter Wilson - 1859 - 452 pages
...portion of the spoil of the Amalekites, only that he might offer it to God, Samuel thus reproves him : " Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings...Lord ? Behold, to obey, is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams." 2 So in the Christian Dispensation. The primary duty of the... | |
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