Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
Bible References
The people
Leviticus 17:3
“Any man from the house of Israel who kills an ox or lamb or goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp
Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places [devoted to idolatrous worship], and cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies upon the [crushed] bodies of your idols, and My soul will detest you [with deep and unutterable loathing].
Deuteronomy 12:2
You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green [leafy] tree.
2 Chronicles 33:17
Yet the people still sacrificed on the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
Was no
1 Kings 5:3
“You know that David my father could not build a house (temple) for the Name (Presence) of the Lord his God because of the wars which surrounded him, until the Lord put his enemies under his feet.
1 Chronicles 17:4
“Go and tell David My servant, ‘Thus says the Lord, “You shall not build a house for Me to dwell in;
1 Chronicles 28:3
But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for My Name (Presence), because you are a man of war and have shed blood.’
Acts 7:47
But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.