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
If any one of the house of Israel kills an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp,
Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.
Deuteronomy 12:2
You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
2 Chronicles 33:17
Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at 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 for the name of the LORD his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Chronicles 17:4
"Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD: It is not you who will build me a house to dwell in.
1 Chronicles 28:3
But God said to me, 'You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.'
Acts 7:47
But it was Solomon who built a house for him.