Quotes about Sacrifice
“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
He quickly called his armor-bearer, saying, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So Abimelech’s armor-bearer ran his sword through him, and he died.
- Judges 9:54
Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand,
- Judges 11:30
then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
- Judges 11:31
And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
- Judges 11:34
As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”
- Judges 11:35
“My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”
- Judges 11:36
“Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.”
- Judges 13:15
Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife looked on, the LORD did a marvelous thing.
- Judges 13:19
But his wife replied, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or spoken to us this way.”
- Judges 13:23