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Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/7.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/7.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/7.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, &#8220Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/7.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/jeremiah/7.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/jeremiah/7.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/jeremiah/7.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/7.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: &#8220Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/7.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/jeremiah/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The LORD told me to say to the people of Judah: I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, but I won't accept sacrifices from you. So don't even bother bringing them to me. You might as well just cook the meat for yourselves. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/7.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/jeremiah/7.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the meat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/jeremiah/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"My people, some sacrifices you burn completely on the altar, and some you are permitted to eat. But what I, the LORD, say is that you might as well eat them all. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/jeremiah/7.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/jeremiah/7.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />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!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/jeremiah/7.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />The LORD said to the people of Judah, "The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says: 'You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/jeremiah/7.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/7.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/7.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/7.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/7.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Your burnt-offerings add to your sacrifices, And eat ye flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/jeremiah/7.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel; Add your burnt-offerings upon your sacrifices and eat flesh.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/7.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your holocausts to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Heap your burnt offerings upon your sacrifices; eat up the meat!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/7.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat which I did not command your fathers to eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/7.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Add their burnt offerings to their sacrifices and eat meat which I did not speak to their fathers<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/jeremiah/7.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/jeremiah/7.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Thus saith the Lord, Gather your whole-burnt-offerings with your meat-offerings, and eat flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=2290" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/7.htm">Judah's Idolatry Persists</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">20</span>Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished. <span class="reftext">21</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3541.htm" title="3541: kōh (Adv) -- Thus, here. From the prefix k and huw'; properly, like this, i.e. By implication, thus; also here; or now.">This is what</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/6635.htm" title="6635: ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ (N-cp) -- Or tsbadah; from tsaba'; a mass of persons, especially reg. Organized for war; by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively.">of Hosts,</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·hê (N-mpc) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">the God</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">of Israel,</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: ’ā·mar (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">says:</a> <a href="/hebrew/5930.htm" title="5930: ‘ō·lō·w·ṯê·ḵem (N-fpc:: 2mp) -- Whole burnt offering. Or mowlah; feminine active participle of alah; a step or; usually a holocaust.">Add your burnt offerings</a> <a href="/hebrew/3254.htm" title="3254: sə·p̄ū (V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- To add. A primitive root; to add or augment."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/2077.htm" title="2077: ziḇ·ḥê·ḵem (N-mpc:: 2mp) -- A sacrifice. From zabach; properly, a slaughter, i.e. The flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice.">your other sacrifices</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: wə·’iḵ·lū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">and eat</a> <a href="/hebrew/1320.htm" title="1320: ḇā·śār (N-ms) -- Flesh. From basar; flesh; by extension, body, person; also The pudenda of a man.">the meat yourselves!</a> </span><span class="reftext">22</span>For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11-14</a></span><br />“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. / When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts? / Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21-24</a></span><br />“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. / Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard. / Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/6-6.htm">Hosea 6:6</a></span><br />For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/50-8.htm">Psalm 50:8-13</a></span><br />I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me. / I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens, / for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/6-6.htm">Micah 6:6-8</a></span><br />With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? / Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? / He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/15-22.htm">1 Samuel 15:22</a></span><br />But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/9-13.htm">Matthew 9:13</a></span><br />But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/12-33.htm">Mark 12:33</a></span><br />and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself. This is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/10-5.htm">Hebrews 10:5-10</a></span><br />Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me. / In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight. / Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/12-7.htm">Matthew 12:7</a></span><br />If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/66-3.htm">Isaiah 66:3</a></span><br />Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/40-6.htm">Psalm 40:6-8</a></span><br />Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require. / Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll: / I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/21-3.htm">Proverbs 21:3</a></span><br />To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/12-1.htm">Romans 12:1</a></span><br />Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/13-3.htm">1 Corinthians 13:3</a></span><br />If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh.</p><p class="hdg">Put.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/6-20.htm">Jeremiah 6:20</a></b></br> To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings <i>are</i> not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11-15</a></b></br> To what purpose <i>is</i> the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/8-13.htm">Hosea 8:13</a></b></br> They sacrifice flesh <i>for</i> the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat <i>it; but</i> the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/38-5.htm">Add</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-25.htm">Ahead</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-3.htm">Almighty</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-3.htm">Armies</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-20.htm">Beasts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-29.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-20.htm">Burnt-Offerings</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-17.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/isaiah/66-24.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-3.htm">Food</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-3.htm">Hosts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-12.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-25.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-18.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Sacrifices</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-8.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/30-19.htm">Add</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-39.htm">Ahead</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-7.htm">Almighty</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-3.htm">Armies</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-33.htm">Beasts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-10.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-22.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-22.htm">Burnt-Offerings</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-15.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-25.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-33.htm">Food</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-3.htm">Hosts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-15.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-33.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-22.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-22.htm">Sacrifices</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-27.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 7</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-1.htm">Jeremiah is sent to call to true repentance, to prevent the Jews' captivity.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-8.htm">He rejects their vain confidence,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">12. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-12.htm">by the example of Shiloh.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-17.htm">He threatens them for their idolatry.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">21. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-21.htm">He rejects the sacrifices of the disobedient.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">29. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-29.htm">He exhorts to mourn for their abominations in Tophet;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">32. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/7-32.htm">and the judgments for the same.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/jeremiah/7.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/jeremiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/jeremiah/7.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says:</b><br>This phrase establishes the authority and divine origin of the message. "LORD of Hosts" emphasizes God's sovereignty and command over heavenly armies, underscoring His power and majesty. "The God of Israel" highlights the covenant relationship between God and His chosen people, Israel. This introduction is common in prophetic literature, asserting that the message is not from the prophet's own mind but from God Himself, as seen in other prophetic books like Isaiah and Ezekiel.<p><b>Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices:</b><br>Burnt offerings were entirely consumed by fire, symbolizing complete devotion to God, while other sacrifices, such as peace offerings, were partially eaten by the offerer. This command is ironic, suggesting that the ritualistic practices of the Israelites had become meaningless due to their disobedience and lack of true repentance. The historical context reveals that during Jeremiah's time, the people of Judah were engaging in idolatry and injustice, despite maintaining religious rituals. This critique of empty ritualism is echoed in other scriptures, such as <a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11-17</a> and <a href="/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21-24</a>, where God expresses disdain for sacrifices without righteousness.<p><b>and eat the meat yourselves!</b><br>This phrase further emphasizes the futility of their sacrifices. In typical sacrificial practices, only certain parts of the offerings were eaten by the offerer, with the rest given to God. By telling them to eat the meat themselves, God is indicating that their sacrifices are not being accepted by Him. This reflects a broader biblical theme where God desires obedience and a contrite heart over mere ritual (<a href="/1_samuel/15-22.htm">1 Samuel 15:22</a>, <a href="/psalms/51-16.htm">Psalm 51:16-17</a>). The cultural context shows that sacrifices were a central part of worship, but without genuine faith and obedience, they were rendered ineffective. This anticipates the New Testament teaching that true worship is in spirit and truth (<a href="/john/4-24.htm">John 4:24</a>), and points to Jesus Christ as the ultimate sacrifice, fulfilling the law and rendering the old sacrificial system obsolete (<a href="/hebrews/10.htm">Hebrews 10:1-10</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord_of_hosts.htm">The LORD of Hosts</a></b><br>This title emphasizes God's supreme authority and power over all heavenly armies. It underscores His sovereignty and the seriousness of His message.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_god_of_israel.htm">The God of Israel</a></b><br>This designation highlights the covenant relationship between God and the nation of Israel, reminding them of their unique identity and responsibilities.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a></b><br>A prophet called by God to deliver messages of warning and judgment to the people of Judah, urging them to repent and return to God.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a></b><br>The southern kingdom of Israel, which was facing impending judgment due to its persistent idolatry and disobedience to God's commands.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/b/burnt_offerings_and_sacrifices.htm">Burnt Offerings and Sacrifices</a></b><br>These were central elements of Israelite worship, intended to express devotion, atonement, and thanksgiving to God. However, they had become empty rituals devoid of true obedience and repentance.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/true_worship_requires_obedience.htm">True Worship Requires Obedience</a></b><br>God is not interested in mere rituals or sacrifices if they are not accompanied by a heart of obedience and repentance. Our worship must be genuine and reflect a life aligned with God's will.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/rituals_cannot_replace_righteousness.htm">Rituals Cannot Replace Righteousness</a></b><br>The Israelites were performing religious rituals while living in disobedience. We must ensure that our religious practices are not a substitute for living a life of righteousness and justice.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/e/examine_the_heart.htm">Examine the Heart</a></b><br>This passage calls us to examine our own hearts and motives in worship. Are we going through the motions, or are we truly seeking to honor God with our lives?<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_desire_for_relationship.htm">God's Desire for Relationship</a></b><br>God desires a relationship with His people, not just ritualistic observance. Our focus should be on knowing Him and living in a way that reflects His character.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_return.htm">Repentance and Return</a></b><br>Like the people of Judah, we are called to repent and return to God when we stray. True repentance involves a change of heart and behavior.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_7.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 7</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what's_the_meaning_of_'the_true_vine'.htm">What is the meaning of 'The True Vine'?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_life_more_important_than_food.htm">Is life more important than food?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_did_one_offering_ensure_victory.htm">Why would a single burnt offering (1 Samuel 7:9) miraculously grant the Israelites victory if similar rituals elsewhere did not? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_of_israel's_gathering_at_shiloh.htm">Joshua 18:1 - Is there historical or archaeological evidence confirming that 'all the congregation of the children of Israel' actually gathered at Shiloh?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/7.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(21) <span class= "bld">Put your burnt offerings.</span>--i.e., "Add one kind of sacrifice to another. Offer the victim, and then partake of the sacrificial feast. All is fruitless, unless there be the true conditions of acceptance, repentance, and holiness."<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 21-28.</span> - Jeremiah dispels the illusion that God's claims are satisfied by a merely formal service. <span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 21.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Put your burnt offerings</span>, etc. Throw all your sacrifices into a <span class="accented">mass</span>, and eat them at your pleasure. Ye have my perfect permission, for they are of no religions value. According to the Law, the burnt offerings were to be entirely consumed by fire, while the other sacrifices were mostly eaten by the offerers and by their friends. There is a touch of contempt in the phrase, <span class="cmt_word">eat flesh</span>; they are merely pieces of flesh, and ye may eat them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">This is what</span><br /><span class="heb">כֹּ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(kōh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3541.htm">Strong's 3541: </a> </span><span class="str2">Like this, thus, here, now</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the LORD</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Hosts,</span><br /><span class="heb">צְבָא֖וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6635.htm">Strong's 6635: </a> </span><span class="str2">A mass of persons, reg, organized for, war, a campaign</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the God</span><br /><span class="heb">אֱלֹהֵ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(’ĕ·lō·hê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> </span><span class="str2">gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Israel,</span><br /><span class="heb">יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל</span> <span class="translit">(yiś·rā·’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">says:</span><br /><span class="heb">אָמַ֛ר</span> <span class="translit">(’ā·mar)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> </span><span class="str2">To utter, say</span><br /><br /><span class="word">‘Add your burnt offerings</span><br /><span class="heb">עֹלוֹתֵיכֶ֛ם</span> <span class="translit">(‘ō·lō·w·ṯê·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5930.htm">Strong's 5930: </a> </span><span class="str2">Whole burnt offering</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your other sacrifices</span><br /><span class="heb">זִבְחֵיכֶ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(ziḇ·ḥê·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2077.htm">Strong's 2077: </a> </span><span class="str2">A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and eat</span><br /><span class="heb">וְאִכְל֥וּ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·’iḵ·lū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> </span><span class="str2">To eat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the meat yourselves!</span><br /><span class="heb">בָשָֽׂר׃</span> <span class="translit">(ḇā·śār)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1320.htm">Strong's 1320: </a> </span><span class="str2">Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/jeremiah/7-21.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 7:21 Thus says Yahweh of Armies the God (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/7-20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 7:20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 7:20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/7-22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 7:22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 7:22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>