Quotes about Sacrifice
On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.
— Joshua 9:27
Joshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned up their chariots.
— Joshua 11:9
If we have built for ourselves an altar to turn away from Him and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings on it, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it, may the LORD Himself hold us accountable.
— Joshua 22:23
Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD and turn away from Him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings, or sacrifices, other than the altar of the LORD our God, which stands before His tabernacle.”
— Joshua 22:29
Please do not depart from this place until I return to You. Let me bring my offering and set it before You.” And the LORD said, “I will stay until you return.”
— Judges 6:18
So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.
— Judges 6:19
So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
— Judges 6:24
On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
— Judges 6:25
Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering.”
— Judges 6:26
“We will give them gladly,” they replied. So they spread out a garment, and each man threw an earring from his plunder onto it.
— Judges 8:25
But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?’
— Judges 9:11
for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,
— Judges 9:17