 | 1850 - 526 pages
...NO. IX. 29 What is very similar to this is taught in other passages. In 1 Sam. xv. 22, we read, — " And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in...the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams." From this it appears that obedience to the Lord, thus conformity... | |
 | Edward Bather - 1850 - 360 pages
...and expose his hypocritical evasions, and pronounce his sentence. 6 Prov. xxv. 27. T Prov. xvi. 18. " 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. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is... | |
 | Abraham Belais - 1850 - 84 pages
...(Psalm xv. 19}. The Royal Psalmist imbibed that principle from the Prophet Samuel, who asked Saul : " Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings...voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than to sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rehellion is a son of witchcraft, and stubbornness... | |
 | 1851 - 1282 pages
...took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, ll look on the scall: and behold, if the scall be...be in sight deeper than the skin ; then the priest iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee... | |
 | Jabez Burns - 1851 - 164 pages
...souls for His name and mercy's sake. Amen. No. II. THE OUTWARD FORM; OB A RELIGION OF CEREMONIES. " And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in...the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is... | |
 | Ralph Wedgwood - 1851 - 220 pages
...Christian brethren of what the Lord said by his prophet Samuel (I. xv. 22-23): " And Samuel said to Saul, 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 ; for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1851 - 568 pages
...of engaging the favour of Zeus, this is the foremost plea.4 It is not written in Homer's theology, " 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."8 This part of the Pagan ritual was at once a festival, a banquet,... | |
 | Robert Shittler - 1853 - 718 pages
...took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, 'thou shalt 4 witchcraft, and stubbornness it as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of... | |
 | William Dexter Wilson - 1853 - 460 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." '.1 So in the Christian Dispensation. The primary 1 Deut. viii.... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1853 - 404 pages
...Thine everlasting Habitation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Our Father, &c. 233 OBEDIENCE. " 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. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is... | |
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And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 
