1 Kings 3:2

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The Temple to honor the Lord had not yet been finished, so people were still making animal sacrifices on altars at the high places.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:43

Like his father Asa, Jehoshaphat was good and did everything that the Lord wanted, but he did not destroy the high places. The people continued offering sacrifices and burning incense there.

2 Chronicles 33:17

The people continued to offer sacrifices at the high places, but their sacrifices were only to the Lord their God.

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your high places. I will cut down your incense altars. I will put your dead bodies on the dead bodies of your idols. You will be disgusting to me.

1 Kings 5:3

“You remember that my father, King David, had to fight many wars all around him. So he was never able to build a temple to honor the Lord his God. King David was waiting until the Lord allowed him to defeat all his enemies.

Deuteronomy 12:13

Be sure you don’t offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see.

1 Samuel 9:12

The young women answered, “Yes, the seer is here. He is just up the road. He came to town today. Some people are meeting together today to share in a fellowship offering at the place for worship.

Psalm 78:58

They built high places and made God angry. They built statues of false gods and made him jealous.

1 Kings 14:23

They built high places, memorial stones, and sacred poles. They built them on every high hill and under every green tree.

1 Kings 15:14

Asa did not destroy the high places, even though he was faithful to the Lord all his life.

1 Kings 22:44

Jehoshaphat made a peace agreement with the king of Israel.

2 Kings 12:4

Joash said to the priests, “There is much money in the Lord’s Temple. People have given things to the Temple and have paid the Temple tax when they were counted. And they have given money simply because they wanted to. You priests should take that money and repair the Lord’s Temple. Each priest should use the money he gets from the people he serves. He should use that money to repair the damage to the Temple.”

2 Chronicles 15:17

Asa did not destroy the high places, even though he was faithful to God all his life.