1 Kings 3:2

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.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:43 : 43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
  • Deut 12:2-5 : 2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree: 3 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place. 4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God. 5 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come;
  • 1 Kgs 5:3 : 3 "You know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yahweh put them under the soles of his feet.
  • Lev 17:3-6 : 3 Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp, 4 and hasn't brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people. 5 This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh. 6 The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
  • Lev 26:30 : 30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
  • 1 Chr 17:4-6 : 4 "Go and tell David my servant, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You shall not build me a house to dwell in; 5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another. 6 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, '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 However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has 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 Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh's kingdom over Israel. 6 He said to me, 'Solomon, your son, 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 to Yahweh their God.
  • Acts 7:47-49 : 47 But Solomon built him a house. 48 However, the Most High doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says, 49 'heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?' says the Lord; 'or what is the place of my rest?

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

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

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

  • 2 Chr 8:11-12
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    11 Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to 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 where the ark of Yahweh has come are holy."

    12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh, which he had built before the porch,

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
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    3 However 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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    25 Three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense therewith, [on the altar] that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.

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

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
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    10 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house

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

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
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    35 However 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 Yahweh.

  • 1 Kgs 3:1
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    1 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 Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.

  • 2 Kgs 21:4-5
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    4 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, "I will put my name in Jerusalem."

    5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 33:4-5
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    4 He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, "My name shall be in Jerusalem forever."

    5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
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    4 However 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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    4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Yahweh.

    5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle, 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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    7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-2
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    1 It happened 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 Yahweh.

    2 The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty [cubits], and its height thirty cubits.

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

  • 2 Chr 8:1
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    1 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,

  • 2 Chr 7:7
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    7 Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze 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%

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

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:1
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    1 It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
    72%

    4 However 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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    2 But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever."

  • 2 Chr 7:12
    72%

    12 Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

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

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

  • 1 Chr 22:1
    71%

    1 Then David said, "This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel."

  • 2 Chr 33:7
    71%

    7 He set the engraved 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 forever:

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    71%

    7 He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh 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 forever;

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    71%

    33 However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 8:17
    71%

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

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    71%

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
    70%

    3 Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

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

  • 2 Chr 2:6
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    6 But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?

  • 2 Chr 1:3
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    3 So 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 Yahweh had made in the wilderness.

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

  • 1 Kgs 8:62
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    62 The king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh.

  • 1 Chr 17:6
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    6 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'"'

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    70%

    13 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built 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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    1 Now 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 Yahweh filled the house.