1 Kings 3:2
The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the Lord had not yet been built.
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.
However, the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for the Lord’s name.
Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the people
- It was not right to offer sacrifices in any place but where the tabernacle and ark were; and wherever they were, whether on a high place or a plain, sacrifices might be lawfully offered, previously to building of the temple. The tabernacle was now at Gibeon, (2 Ch 1:3,) which was therefore called the great high place; whither we find Solomon, without censure, repaired to sacrifice.
- 1 Kings 22:43; Leviticus 17:3–6; Leviticus 26:30; Deuteronomy 12:2–5; 2 Chronicles 33:17
- was no
- 1 Kings 5:3; 1 Chronicles 17:4–6; 1 Chronicles 28:3–6; Acts 7:47–49