1 Kings 3:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the Lord.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles 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 true to the Lord all his days.

1 Kings 22:43

He walked in all the way of his father Asa; he did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord, yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and offered incense on the high places.

1 Kings 22:44

Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.

1 Kings 5:3

“You know that my father David could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until he put them under the soles of his feet.

2 Kings 12:4

Jehoash said to the priests, “All the silver offered as sacred donations that is brought into the house of the Lord—the census tax, personal redemption payments, and silver from voluntary offerings brought into the house of the Lord—

2 Chronicles 15:17

But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was true all his days.

2 Chronicles 33:17

The people, however, still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars; I will heap your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. I will abhor you.

Deuteronomy 12:13

“Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place you happen to see.

1 Samuel 9:12

They answered, “Yes, there he is just ahead of you. Hurry; he has come just now to the town because the people have a sacrifice today at the shrine.