1 Kings 3:2

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.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:43 : 43 And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; He turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah: howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
  • Deut 12:2-5 : 2 Ye shall surely destroy all the places wherein the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 and ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place. 4 Ye shall not do so unto Jehovah your God. 5 But unto the place which Jehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come;
  • 1 Kgs 5:3 : 3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Jehovah his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Jehovah put them under the soles of his feet.
  • Lev 17:3-6 : 3 What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it without the camp, 4 and hath not brought it unto the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as an oblation unto Jehovah before the tabernacle of Jehovah: blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people: 5 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, even that they may bring them unto Jehovah, unto the door of the tent of meeting, unto the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace-offerings unto Jehovah. 6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of Jehovah at the door of the tent of meeting, and burn the fat for a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
  • Lev 26:30 : 30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.
  • 1 Chr 17:4-6 : 4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith Jehovah, Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in: 5 for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, unto this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from [one] tabernacle [to another] . 6 In all places wherein I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedar?
  • 1 Chr 28:3-6 : 3 But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build a house for my name, because thou art a man of war, and hast shed blood. 4 Howbeit Jehovah, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel; 5 And of all my sons (for Jehovah hath given me many sons), he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah over Israel. 6 And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall 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 Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only unto Jehovah their God.
  • Acts 7:47-49 : 47 But Solomon built him a house. 48 Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in [houses] made with hands; as saith the prophet, 49 The heaven is my throne, And the earth the footstool of my feet: What manner of house will ye build Me? saith the Lord: Or what is the place of my rest?

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  • 1 Kgs 3:3-4
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    3And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

    4And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
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    1Then Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where [Jehovah] appeared unto David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 2 Chr 8:11-12
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    11And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of Jehovah hath come.

    12Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings unto Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah, which he had built before the porch,

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
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    3Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 1 Kgs 9:25
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    25And three times a year did Solomon offer burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built unto Jehovah, burning incense therewith, [upon the altar] that was before Jehovah. So he finished the house.

  • 2 Chr 33:17
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    17Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only unto Jehovah their God.

  • Acts 7:47
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    47But Solomon built him a house.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
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    10And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the king's house

  • 2 Chr 2:1
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    1Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
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    35Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.

  • 1 Kgs 3:1
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    1And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

  • 2 Kgs 21:4-5
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    4And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

    5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.

  • 2 Chr 33:4-5
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    4And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

    5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
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    4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 7:4-5
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    4Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Jehovah.

    5And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

  • 1 Kgs 11:7
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    7Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Kgs 5:3
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    3Thou knowest how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Jehovah his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Jehovah put them under the soles of his feet.

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-2
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    1And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah.

    2And the house which king Solomon built for Jehovah, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.

  • 2 Chr 2:4
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    4Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt-offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Jehovah our God. This is [an ordinance] for ever to Israel.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
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    1And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of Jehovah, and his own house,

  • 2 Chr 7:7
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    7Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of Jehovah; for there he offered the burnt-offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    72%

    16Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of Jehovah, and until it was finished. [So] the house of Jehovah was completed.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
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    31And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
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    1And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
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    4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
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    2But I have built thee a house of habitation, and a place for thee to dwell in for ever.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
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    12And Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

  • 1 Chr 22:6-7
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    6Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for Jehovah, the God of Israel.

    7And David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it was in my heart to build a house unto the name of Jehovah my God.

  • 1 Chr 22:1
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    1Then David said, This is the house of Jehovah God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
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    7And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
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    7And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Jehovah said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever;

  • 2 Chr 20:33
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    33Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 8:17
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    17Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
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    8And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
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    3And Jehovah said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

  • 2 Chr 6:7
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    7Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 2:6
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    6But who is able to build him a house, seeing heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?

  • 2 Chr 1:3
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    3So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of Jehovah had made in the wilderness.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
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    13I have surely built thee a house of habitation, a place for thee to dwell in for ever.

  • 1 Kgs 8:62
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    62And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Jehovah.

  • 1 Chr 17:6
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    6In all places wherein I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedar?

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
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    13And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

  • 2 Chr 7:1
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    1Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Jehovah filled the house.