Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Will the Lord be pleased with ... ten thousands of rivers of oil? - ordered to be put on the unbloody minchaah (H4503) or unbloody "meat offering" (Leviticus 2:1; Leviticus 2:15). Will God be appeased by my offering so much oil that it shall flow in myriads of torrents?
Shall I give my first-born for my transgression - (2 Kings 3:27). As the King of Moab did, when pressed in battle by the Kings of Judah and Israel, Jehoshaphat and Jehoram.
The fruit of my body? - my children as an atonement (Psalms 132:11). The Jews offered human sacrifices in the valley of Hinnom, causing their children, which belonged to God, to pass through the fire in honour of Moloch (Jeremiah 19:5; Jeremiah 32:35; Ezekiel 23:37). This allusion fixes this prophecy to the time of Ahaz, who "made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the pagan" (2 Kings 16:3). "He burnt his children in the fire" (2 Chronicles 28:3).