He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, walking in the way of Jeroboam and in the sin that he caused Israel to commit.
Deuteronomy 12:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place you happen to see. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Be watchful not to offer your burnt offerings in every place you see. American Standard Version (1901) Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest; Common English Bible But watch yourself! Make sure you don’t offer up your entirely burned offerings in just any place you see. Catholic Public Domain Version Take care that you do not offer your holocausts in any place that you see. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts in every place that thou shalt see. |
He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, walking in the way of Jeroboam and in the sin that he caused Israel to commit.
The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the Lord.
But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was true all his days.
then you shall bring everything that I command you to the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and your donations, and all your choice votive gifts that you vow to the Lord.
But only at the place that the Lord will choose in one of your tribes—there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do everything I command you.
But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes as his habitation to put his name there. You shall go there,
bringing there your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and your donations, your votive gifts, your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and flocks.
They came to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they said to them,
Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord and turn away this day from following the Lord by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice other than the altar of the Lord our God that stands before his tabernacle!’ ”