1 Kings 3:2 - Modern English Version

² The people were sacrificing at the high places, because no house had yet been built for the name of the Lord.

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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.

1 Kings 3:2 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built high places and images and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

1 Kings 15:14

But the high places were not all removed, even though Asa’s heart was wholly devoted to the Lord all his days.

1 Kings 22:43

He walked in all the ways of Asa his father. He did not turn aside, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord. Nevertheless, the high places were not taken down, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

1 Kings 22:44

So Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

1 Kings 5:3

“You know how David my father was unable to build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the wars all around him, until the Lord put his enemies under his feet.

2 Kings 12:4

Now Jehoash said to the priests, “All the consecrated money that is brought into the house of the Lord, the money for which each man is currently assessed, and all the money that is brought voluntarily to the house of the Lord,

2 Chronicles 15:17

But they did not remove the high places from Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was wholly committed all his days.

2 Chronicles 33:17

However, the people continued to sacrifice at the high places, but only to 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

I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your funeral offerings on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I shall abhor you.

Deuteronomy 12:13

Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see.

1 Samuel 9:12

And they answered them and said, “He is. Behold, he is ahead of you. Hurry now, for today he came to the city, because there is a sacrifice for the people in the high place today.