Verse 2

However, the people were still sacrificing on the high places because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:43 : 43 Jehoshaphat followed in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them and did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.
  • Deut 12:2-5 : 2 Completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing worshiped their gods—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree. 3 Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles with fire, cut down their carved idols, and obliterate the names of their gods from those places. 4 Do not worship the Lord your God in the same way that they worship their gods. 5 Instead, seek the place that the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put His name and make His presence dwell, and go there.
  • 1 Kgs 5:3 : 3 This included ten fattened head of cattle, twenty pasture-fed cattle, and a hundred sheep—besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
  • Lev 17:3-6 : 3 Anyone from the house of Israel who sacrifices an ox, a lamb, or a goat in the camp, or outside the camp, 4 and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord before the sanctuary of the Lord shall be considered guilty of bloodshed; they have shed blood and must be cut off from their people. 5 This is so that the Israelites will bring the sacrifices they offer in the open fields to the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them as fellowship offerings to the Lord. 6 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting and burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
  • Lev 26:30 : 30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and my soul will reject you.
  • 1 Chr 17:4-6 : 4 "Go and tell my servant David: 'This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in. 5 For I have not lived in a house from the day I brought Israel out until this very day. I have moved from tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle. 6 In all the places where I walked with Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"
  • 1 Chr 28:3-6 : 3 But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for My name, because you are a man of war and have shed blood.’ 4 Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father's house to be king over Israel forever. He chose Judah as leader, and within the house of Judah, He was pleased to choose my father's family. And among the sons of my father, He was pleased with me to make me king over all Israel. 5 Of all my sons—for the LORD has given me many sons—He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the LORD’s kingdom over Israel. 6 He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him to be My son, and I will be his Father.
  • 2 Chr 33:17 : 17 However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.
  • Acts 7:47-49 : 47 But it was Solomon who built Him a house. 48 However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says: 49 Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me? says the Lord. Or where will my resting place be?