Isaiah 1:12
When uye come 7to appear before me, who hath *required this at your hand, to tread vmy courts?
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
u:
Exodus 23:17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
Exodus 34:23 ¶Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Deuteronomy 16:16 ¶Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
Deuteronomy 31:11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Jeremiah 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
7:
Isaiah 29:13 ¶Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
*:
required-sought.
v:
Psalms 116:19 In the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
upon the three solemn feasts, Exo 23:17 34:23, or upon other occasions.
to wit, in this manner, and upon these terms? The thing that I commanded was not only nor chiefly that you should offer external sacrifices to me, but that you should do it with true repentance for all your sins, with faith in my promises, with hearty love to me, and sincere resolutions of devoting yourselves to my service, without which you offer me a dead carcass instead of a living sacrifice.
the courts of my temple, which were two, that of the priests, and that where the people assembled, 2Ch 4:9. So this reproof seems to be directed against both priests and people, as unworthy to enjoy this privilege.