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Psalm 66:15
I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.
13I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,
14which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
15I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.
16Come and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.
17I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.
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Fat animals, rams, bulls, and goats make the psalmist’s promised worship tangible, raising the question of what gratitude to God takes beyond spoken words.
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Psalm 51:19Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.Both psalms name burnt offerings and bulls as part of worship offered to God.
Leviticus 1:9but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a …Both passages name burnt offerings; Leviticus describes the priest burning the whole animal on the altar.
Leviticus 8:14He brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.Both passages name a bull for sacrifice, though Leviticus describes a sin offering and the psalm describes burnt offerings.
Numbers 7:32one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;The link is limited to named materials: incense in a gold ladle in Numbers, animals for burnt offerings in the psalm.
Numbers 7:45one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;Both passages include a bull and a ram among animals brought for burnt offerings.
2 Samuel 6:17–19They brought in the LORD’s ark, and set it in its place in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace …Both describe burnt offerings presented to God, with Samuel placing David’s offerings at the arrival of the ark.
1 Chronicles 16:1–3They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.Burnt offerings before God appear in both passages; Chronicles places them after the ark is set inside David’s tent.
Numbers 6:14and he shall offer his offering to the LORD: one male lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb a year old without defect for a sin …Both passages name burnt offerings and rams, though Numbers assigns its ram to peace offerings.
2 Samuel 6:13When those who bore the LORD’s ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.Both passages describe animal sacrifices, with the psalm naming fat animals and Samuel naming a fattened calf.
Jeremiah 41:5men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal …Both describe people bringing offerings to God, though Jeremiah names meal offerings and frankincense rather than animals.
Song of Songs 4:6Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.The link is slight: both speakers declare an intention, while the Song describes going to fragrant heights rather than offering sacrifices.
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These offerings belong to Israel’s temple worship, where the psalmist intends to honor God with what he has promised. His gratitude has a concrete expression.
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