For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ashĕrim on every high hill and under every green tree.
1 Kings 3:2 - The Scriptures 2009 Only, the people slaughtered at the high places, for a house for the Name of יהוה had not been built until those days. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But the people sacrificed [to God] in the high places [as the heathen did to their idols], for there was no house yet built to the Name of the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days. Common English Bible Unfortunately, the people were sacrificing at the shrines because a temple hadn’t yet been built for the LORD’s name in those days. Catholic Public Domain Version But still the people immolated in the high places. For no temple had been built to the name of the Lord, even to that day. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: far there was no temple built to the name of the Lord until that day. |
For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ashĕrim on every high hill and under every green tree.
But the high places were not removed. However, Asa’s heart was perfect with יהוה all his days.
And he walked in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them, doing what was right in the eyes of יהוה. Only, the high places were not taken away, for the people slaughtered and burned incense on the high places.
“You know my father Dawiḏ was unable to build a house for the Name of יהוה his Elohim because of the battles which were all around him, until יהוה put them under the soles of his feet.
And Yeho’ash said to the priests, “All the silver of the set-apart gifts that are brought into the House of יהוה, the silver coming over, each man’s assessment silver, all the silver that a man purposes in his heart to bring into the House of יהוה,
Yet the high places were not removed from Yisra’ĕl. However, the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
But the people were still slaughtering on the high places, though only to יהוה their Elohim.
For they enraged Him with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
‘And I shall destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and put your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. And My being shall loathe you.
“Guard yourself that you do not offer your ascending offerings in every place that you see,
And they answered them and said, “He is. Look, ahead of you. Hurry now, for he came to this city today, for the people have a slaughtering on the high place today.