For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
1 Kings 3:2 - Y'all Version Bible However, the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for the name of YHWH. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with YHWH all his days.
He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in YHWH’s eyes. However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
“You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of YHWH his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until YHWH put his enemies under the soles of his feet.
Joash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of YHWH, in current money, the money of the people for whom each man is evaluated, and all the money that it comes into any man’s heart to bring into the house of YHWH,
But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to YHWH their God.
For they provoked ʜɪᴍ to anger with their high places, and moved ʜɪᴍ to jealousy with their engraved images.
I will destroy y’all’s high places, cut down y’all’s incense altars, and cast y’all’s dead bodies upon the bodies of y’all’s idols. My soul will abhor y’all.
You must be careful that you don’t offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see,
They answered them and said, “He is. Look, he is ahead of you. Hurry now, he has come today into the city, because the people have a sacrifice today in the high place.