1 Kings 3:2

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.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:43 : 43 And he walked in all the wayes of Asa his father, and declined not therefrom, but did that which was right in the eyes of the Lorde. Neuerthelesse the hie places were not taken away: for the people offred still and burnt incense in the hie places.
  • Deut 12:2-5 : 2 Yee shall vtterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shal possesse, serued their gods vpon the hie mountaines and vpon the hilles, and vnder euery greene tree. 3 Also ye shall ouerthrowe their altars, and breake downe their pillars, & burne their groues with fire: and ye shall hew downe ye grauen images of their gods, and abolish their names out of that place. 4 Ye shal not do so vnto ye Lord your God, 5 But ye shal seeke the place which the Lord your God shall chose out of all your tribes, to put his Name there, and there to dwell, and thither thou shalt come,
  • 1 Kgs 5:3 : 3 Thou knowest that Dauid my father could not build an house vnto the Name of the Lorde his God, for the warres which were about him on euery side, vntill the Lord had put them vnder the soles of his feete.
  • Lev 17:3-6 : 3 Whosoeuer he be of the house of Israel that killeth a bullocke, or lambe, or goate in the hoste, or that killeth it out of the hoste, 4 And bringeth it not vnto the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation to offer an offring vnto the Lord before the Tabernacle of the Lord, blood shalbe imputed vnto that man: he hath shed blood, wherefore that man shall be cut off from among his people. 5 Therefore the children of Israel shall bring their offrings, which they would offer abroad in the fielde, & present the vnto ye Lord at the doore of the Tabernacle of ye Congregation by ye Priest, and offer them for peace offrings vnto the Lord. 6 Then the Priest shall sprinkle the blood vpon the Altar of the Lord before the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and burne the fat for a sweete sauour vnto the Lord.
  • Lev 26:30 : 30 I will also destroy your hye places, & cut away your images, and cast your carkeises vpon the bodies of your idoles, and my soule shall abhorre you.
  • 1 Chr 17:4-6 : 4 Goe, and tell Dauid my seruant, Thus saith the Lorde, Thou shalt not buylde me an house to dwell in: 5 For I haue dwelt in no house, since the day that I brought out the childre of Israel vnto this daye, but I haue bene from tent to tent, and from habitation to habitation. 6 Wheresoeuer I haue walked with all Israel spake I one word to any of the iudges of Israel (whome I commanded to feede my people) saying, Why haue ye not built mee an house of cedar trees?
  • 1 Chr 28:3-6 : 3 But God sayde vnto me, Thou shalt not buylde an house for my Name, because thou hast bene a man of warre, and hast shed blood. 4 Yet as the Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father, to be King ouer Israel for euer (for in Iudah woulde he chuse a prince, & of the house of Iudah is the house of my father, & among the sonnes of my father he delited in me to make me King ouer all Israel) 5 So of all my sonnes (for the Lord hath giuen me many sonnes) he hath euen chosen Salomon my sonne to sit vpo the throne of the kingdome of the Lord ouer Israel. 6 And he sayd vnto me, Salomon thy sonne, he shall build mine house and my courtes: for I haue chosen him to be my sonne, and I will be his father.
  • 2 Chr 33:17 : 17 Neuerthelesse the people did sacrifice stil in the hie places, but vnto the Lorde their God.
  • Acts 7:47-49 : 47 But Solomon built him an house. 48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with handes, as saith the Prophet, 49 Heauen is my throne, and earth is my footestoole: what house wil ye build for me, saith the Lord? or what place is it that I should rest in?

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  • 1 Kgs 3:3-4
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    3And Salomon loued the Lord, walking in the ordinances of Dauid his father: onely he sacrificed and offred incense in the hie places.

    4And the King went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the chiefe hie place: a thousand burnt offrings did Salomon offer vpo that altar.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
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    1So Salomon began to buyld the house of the Lord in Ierusalem, in mount Moriah which had bene declared vnto Dauid his father, in the place that Dauid prepared in the thresshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite.

  • 2 Chr 8:11-12
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    11Then Salomon brought vp the daughter of Pharaoh out of the citie of Dauid, into the house that he had built for her: for he saide, My wife shall not dwel in the house of Dauid King of Israel: for it is holy, because that the Arke of the Lorde came vnto it.

    12Then Salomon offered burnt offrings vnto the Lord, on the altar of the Lorde, which he had built before the porche,

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
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    3But the hie places were not taken away: for the people offred yet and burnt incense in the hie places.

  • 1 Kgs 9:25
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    25And thrise a yere did Salomon offer burnt offringes and peace offrings vpon the altar which he built vnto the Lord: and hee burnt incense vpon the altar that was before the Lorde, when hee had finished the house.

  • 2 Chr 33:17
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    17Neuerthelesse the people did sacrifice stil in the hie places, but vnto the Lorde their God.

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
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    10And at the ende of twentie yeeres, when Salomon had buylded the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the Kings palace,

  • 2 Chr 2:1
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    1Then Salomon determined to builde an house for the Name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdome.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    74%

    35But the hie places were not put away: for the people yet offered and burnt incense in the hie places: he buylt the hyest gate of the house of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 3:1
    74%

    1Salomon then made affinitie with Pharaoh King of Egypt, and tooke Pharaohs daughter, and brought her into the citie of Dauid, vntill hee had made an ende of buylding his owne house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Ierusalem round about.

  • 2 Kgs 21:4-5
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    4Also he built altars in the house of the Lorde, of the which the Lorde saide, In Ierusalem will I put my Name.

    5And he built altars for al the hoste of ye heauen in the two courtes of the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 33:4-5
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    4Also he built altars in the house of the Lorde, whereof the Lorde had saide, In Ierusalem shall my Name be for euer.

    5And he built altars for all the hoste of the heauen in the two courtes of the house of the Lorde.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
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    4But the hie places were not put away: for the people yet offered, and burned incense in the hie places.

  • 2 Chr 7:4-5
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    73%

    4Then the King and all the people offred sacrifices before the Lord.

    5And King Salomon offered a sacrifice of two and twentie thousand bullockes, and an hundreth and twentie thousand sheepe. so the King and all the people dedicated the house of God.

  • 1 Kgs 11:7
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    7Then did Salomon build an hie place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mountaine that is ouer against Ierusalem, and vnto Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Kgs 5:3
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    3Thou knowest that Dauid my father could not build an house vnto the Name of the Lorde his God, for the warres which were about him on euery side, vntill the Lord had put them vnder the soles of his feete.

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-2
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    1And in the foure hundreth and foure score yeere (after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt) and in the fourth yere of the reigne of Salomon ouer Israel, in the moneth Zif, (which is the second moneth) he built the house of the Lord.

    2And the house which King Salomon built for the Lorde, was three score cubites long, and twentie broade, and thirtie cubites hie.

  • 2 Chr 2:4
    72%

    4Behold, I buylde an house vnto the Name of the Lord my God, to sanctifie it vnto him, and to burne sweete incense before him, and for the continuall shewbread, and for the burnt offrings of the morning and euening, on the Sabbath dayes, and in the new moneths, & in the solemne feastes of the Lorde our God: this is a perpetuall thing for Israel.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    72%

    1And after twentie yeere when Salomon had built the house of the Lorde, and his owne house,

  • 2 Chr 7:7
    72%

    7Moreouer Salomon halowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there hee had prepared burnt offerings, and the fatte of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Salomon had made, was not able to receiue the burnt offering, and the meate offring, and the fat.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
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    16Nowe Salomon had made prouision for all the worke, from the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, vntill it was finished: so the house of the Lord was perfite.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
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    31Also he made an house of hie places, and made Priestes of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sonnes of Leui.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
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    1When Salomon had finished the building of the house of ye Lorde, & the kings palace, & all that Salomon desired and minded to do,

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
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    4Notwithstanding the hie places were not taken away: for as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense in the hie places.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    72%

    2And I haue built thee an house to dwell in, an habitation for thee to dwell in for euer.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
    72%

    12And the Lord appeared to Salomon by night and said to him, I haue heard thy prayer, and haue chosen this place for my selfe to be an house of sacrifice.

  • 1 Chr 22:6-7
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    6Then he called Salomon his sonne, and charged him to builde an house for the Lorde God of Israel.

    7And Dauid said to Salomon, My sonne, I purposed with my selfe to builde an house to the Name of the Lorde my God,

  • 1 Chr 22:1
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    1And Dauid saide, This is the house of the Lorde God, and this is the altar for the burnt offring of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
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    7He put also the carued image, which he had made, in the house of God: whereof God had said to Dauid and to Salomon his sonne, In this house and in Ierusalem, which I haue chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my Name for euer,

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
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    7And he set the image of the groue, that he had made, in the house, whereof ye Lord had saide to Dauid & to Salomon his sonne, In this house and in Ierusalem, which I haue chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my Name for euer.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
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    33Howbeit the hie places were not taken away: for the people had not yet prepared their hearts vnto the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 8:17
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    17And it was in ye heart of Dauid my father to builde an house to the Name of the Lorde God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
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    8And they dwelt therein, and haue built thee a Sanctuarie therein for thy Name, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
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    3And the Lord sayd vnto him, I haue heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I haue halowed this house (which thou hast built) to put my Name there for euer, and mine eyes, and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

  • 2 Chr 6:7
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    7And it was in the heart of Dauid my father to builde an house vnto the Name of the Lord God of Israel,

  • 2 Chr 2:6
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    6Who is he then that can be able to buylde him an house, when the heauen, & the heauen of heauens can not conteine him? who am I then that I should buylde him an house? but I do it to burne incense before him.

  • 2 Chr 1:3
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    3So Salomon and all the Congregation with him went to the hie place that was at Gibeon: for there was the Tabernacle of the Congregation of God which Moses the seruant of the Lord had made in the wildernesse.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
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    13I haue built thee an house to dwell in, an habitation for thee to abide in for euer.

  • 1 Kgs 8:62
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    62Then the King and all Israel with him offred sacrifice before the Lorde.

  • 1 Chr 17:6
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    6Wheresoeuer I haue walked with all Israel spake I one word to any of the iudges of Israel (whome I commanded to feede my people) saying, Why haue ye not built mee an house of cedar trees?

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    70%

    13Moreouer the King defiled the hie places that were before Ierusalem and on the right hand of the mount of corruption (which Salomon the King of Israel had buylt for Ashtoreth the idole of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the idole of the Moabites, and for Milchom the abomination of the children of Ammon)

  • 2 Chr 7:1
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    1And when Salomon had made an ende of praying, fire came downe from heauen, and consumed the burnt offring and the sacrifices: and the glory of the Lord filled the house,