And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves? Cross References Isaiah 43:23 You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense. Isaiah 58:3 "Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?" "Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers. Zechariah 7:5 "Ask all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted? Zechariah 7:7 Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?'" Treasury of Scripture And when you did eat, and when you did drink, did not you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? did not ye eat for. Deuteronomy 12:7 Deuteronomy 14:26 1 Samuel 16:7 |