Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
The people were sacrificing at various high places because the Temple had not yet been built and dedicated to the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
Holman Bible
However, the people were sacrificing on the high places,
A Conservative Version
Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of LORD until those days.
American Standard Version
Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.
Amplified
But [in the meantime] the people were still sacrificing [to God] on the high places (hilltops) [as the pagans did to their idols], for there was no [permanent] house yet built for the
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
Only, the people sacrificed on the high places; for there was no house built to the name of Jehovah, until those days.
Julia Smith Translation
Only the people sacrificing in heights, for there was not a house, built to the name of Jehovah even to these days.
King James 2000
However the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But the people [were] sacrificing on the high places, for the house for the name of Yahweh had not [yet] been built in those days.
Modern King James verseion
Only the people sacrificed in high places because there was no house built to the name of Jehovah until those days.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Only the people sacrificed in altars made on hills, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD until those days.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.
The Emphasized Bible
Save only, that the people were sacrificing in the high places, - because there had not been built a house unto the Name of Yahweh, until those days,
Webster
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built to the name of the LORD, until those days.
World English Bible
Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.
Youngs Literal Translation
Only, the people are sacrificing in high places, for there hath not been built a house for the name of Jehovah till those days.
Themes
High places » A term used to describe places of worship
High places » God sometimes worshipped on
Interlinear
Bayith
Banah
Shem
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Kings 3:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Solomon's Walk With Yahweh
1 Later, Solomon intermarried with the family of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt by taking his daughter and bringing her to the City of David to live until he had completed building his own palace, the LORD's Temple, and the wall around Jerusalem. 2 The people were sacrificing at various high places because the Temple had not yet been built and dedicated to the LORD. 3 Solomon loved the LORD, and lived according to the statutes that his father David obeyed, except that he sacrificed and burned offerings at the high places.
Cross References
1 Kings 22:43
He lived like his father Asa and never abandoned that life. He did what the LORD considered to be right. Nevertheless, the high places were not demolished, and the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.
Deuteronomy 12:2-5
Be sure you destroy there all the places where the nations that you're going to dispossess serve their gods upon the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.
Leviticus 17:3-6
When a person from the house of Israel slaughters an ox, a lamb, or a goat (whether in the camp or outside the camp),
Leviticus 26:30
I'll destroy your high places and cut down your sun pillars. Then I'll cast your dead bodies on top of the bodies of your idols. I'll loathe you.
1 Kings 5:3
"You know that my father David was unable to build a temple dedicated to the LORD his God because he was busy fighting wars all around him until the LORD defeated his enemies.
1 Chronicles 17:4-6
"Go tell David, my servant, "This is what the LORD says:
1 Chronicles 28:3-6
But then God told me, "You will not build a temple to my name, because you are a man of war, and you have committed bloodshed.'
2 Chronicles 33:17
Even so, the people continued to sacrifice in the high places, but only to the LORD their God.
Acts 7:47-49
but it was Solomon who built a house for him.