For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
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Gill's Exposition
For every beast of the forest is mine,.... By creation and preservation; and therefore he stood in no need of their bullocks and he goats;
and the cattle upon a thousand hills; meaning all the…
Barnes' Notes
For every beast of the forest is mine - All the beasts that roam at large in the wilderness; all that are untamed and unclaimed by man. The idea is, that even if God “needed” such offerings, he was…
God is here dealing with those that placed all their religion in the observances of the ceremonial law, and thought those sufficient.
I. He lays down the original contract between him and Israel, in…
The trial begins. God is the accuser as well as the judge. Israel's sacrifices are unexceptionable, but it is not slain beasts which the Lord of all the earth desires, but the devotion of the heart,…
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