1 Kings 3:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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

² 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)

² 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

² 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

² 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

² But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: far there was no temple built to the name of the Lord until that day.

1 Kings 3:2 Cross References

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

1 Kings 15:14

But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the LORD all his days.

1 Kings 22:43

And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

1 Kings 22:44

And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

1 Kings 5:3

Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house for the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.

2 Kings 12:4

And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of the LORD, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

2 Chronicles 15:17

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

2 Chronicles 33:17

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, but only unto the LORD their God.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Leviticus 26:30

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

Deuteronomy 12:13

Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

1 Samuel 9:12

And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before thee: make haste now, for he is come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place: