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
What man soever, there be of the house of Israel, who slayeth an ox or lamb or goat, in the camp, - or who slayeth it outside the camp;
Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your high places And cut down your sun-pillars, And cast your caresses upon the calluses of your manufactured gods, - Thus shall my soul abhor you.
Deuteronomy 12:2
Ye must utterly destroy, all the places where the nations whom ye are dispossessing have served their gods, - Upon the high mountains And upon the hills, And under every green tree;
2 Chronicles 33:17
Howbeit, still were, the people, sacrificing in the high places, - only unto Yahweh their God.

Was no

1 Kings 5:3
Thou, knewest David my father, how that he could not build a house unto the Name of Yahweh his God, because of the wars that were about him on every side, - until Yahweh should put them under the soles of his feet;
1 Chronicles 17:4
Go and say unto David my servant, Thus, saith Yahweh, - Thou, shalt not build me a house, to dwell in;
1 Chronicles 28:3
But, God, said to me, Thou shalt not build a house for my Name, - for, a man of war, thou art, and, blood, hast thou shed.
Acts 7:47
But, Solomon, built him a house.