1 Kings 3:2

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    But the people sacrificed at high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Only the people{H5971} sacrificed{H2076} in the high places,{H1116} because there was no house{H1004} built{H1129} for the name{H8034} of Jehovah{H3068} until those days.{H3117}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Only the people{H5971} sacrificed{H2076}{(H8764)} in high places{H1116}, because there was no house{H1004} built{H1129}{(H8738)} unto the name{H8034} of the LORD{H3068}, until those days{H3117}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But the people offred yet vpon the hye places: for as yet there was no house buylded vnto the name of the LORDE vnto that tyme.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Only the people sacrificed in the hie places, because there was no house buylt vnto the name of the Lord, vntill those dayes.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Onely the people sacrificed in hygh places, because there was no house built vnto the name of the Lorde vntill those dayes.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Only, the people are sacrificing in high places, for there hath not been built a house for the name of Jehovah till those days.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the LORD.

Referenced Verses

  • 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?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 3:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    3 Solomon loved the LORD, walking according to the statutes of his father David, yet he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

    4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there because it was the most prominent high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
    76%

    1 Then Solomon began building the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 2 Chr 8:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11 Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the house he had built for her, for he said, 'My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, because the places have become holy where the ark of the Lord has entered.'

    12 At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord that he had constructed in front of the portico.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    76%

    3 Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days that Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

  • 1 Kgs 9:25
    76%

    25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense before the LORD with them, and so he fulfilled the temple obligations.

  • 2 Chr 33:17
    75%

    17 However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

  • Acts 7:47
    75%

    47 But it was Solomon who built Him a house.

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    75%

    10 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the temple of the LORD and the royal palace,

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    75%

    1 Solomon assigned seventy thousand men to carry burdens, eighty thousand men to cut stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred supervisors to oversee them.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    74%

    35 However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there. Jotham built the upper gate of the temple of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 3:1
    74%

    1 Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his own house, the house of the LORD, and the wall surrounding Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 21:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 He built altars in the house of the LORD, about which the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put My name.'

    5 He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the LORD's house.

  • 2 Chr 33:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 He built altars in the temple of the LORD, about which the LORD had said, 'My name will remain in Jerusalem forever.'

    5 He built altars to all the stars of the sky in both courtyards of the temple of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    73%

    4 However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense there.

  • 2 Chr 7:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

    5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep and goats. So the king and all the people dedicated the temple of God.

  • 1 Kgs 11:7
    73%

    7 At that time Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill east of Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites.

  • 1 Kgs 5:3
    73%

    3 This included ten fattened head of cattle, twenty pasture-fed cattle, and a hundred sheep—besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 In the four hundred eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv (the second month), he began building the house of the LORD.

    2 The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

  • 2 Chr 2:4
    72%

    4 The house I am building will be large because our God is greater than all gods.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    72%

    1 After twenty years during which Solomon built the house of the Lord and his own house,

  • 2 Chr 7:7
    72%

    7 Solomon also consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the Temple of the LORD, and there he offered burnt offerings, the fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar he had made could not hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat portions.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    72%

    16 So all of Solomon’s work was carried out until the day the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid and until it was completed. The house of the Lord was finished perfectly.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
    72%

    31 Jeroboam also built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
    72%

    1 When Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and everything he desired to accomplish,

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
    72%

    4 However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    72%

    2 And I have built a lofty house for You, a place for You to dwell forever.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
    72%

    12 Then the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

  • 1 Chr 22:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 Then he called for his son Solomon and instructed him to build a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

    7 David said to Solomon, 'My son, it was in my heart to build a house for the name of the Lord my God.'

  • 1 Chr 22:1
    71%

    1 Then David said, 'This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offerings for Israel.'

  • 2 Chr 33:7
    71%

    7 Manasseh took a carved idol that he had made and placed it in the temple of God, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, 'In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.'

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    71%

    7 He placed the carved Asherah image he had made in the house about which the LORD had 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, I will put My name forever.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    71%

    33 However, the high places were not removed, and the people still had not fully set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.

  • 1 Kgs 8:17
    71%

    17 Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    71%

    8 They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your name, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
    70%

    3 The LORD said to him, 'I have heard your prayer and your plea that you made before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will always be there.'

  • 2 Chr 6:7
    70%

    7 Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 2:6
    70%

    6 So now, send me a skilled craftsman, knowledgeable in working with gold, silver, bronze, iron, purple, crimson, and blue yarn, and able to engrave designs. He will work with the skilled craftsmen who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.

  • 2 Chr 1:3
    70%

    3 Then Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon, because God's tent of meeting, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the wilderness, was there.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    70%

    13 I have indeed built a high and exalted house for You, a place where You may dwell forever.

  • 1 Kgs 8:62
    70%

    62 Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 17:6
    70%

    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?"

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    70%

    13 The king also defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians, for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

  • 2 Chr 7:1
    70%

    1 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.