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 slaughters an ox or a sheep or a goat in the camp or who slaughters [it] {outside the camp}
Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your high places, and I will cut down your incense altars, and I will place your corpses on your idols' corpses; and my inner self shall abhor you.
Deuteronomy 12:2
You must completely demolish all [of] the places there where [they] served their gods, [that is], the nations whom you [are] about to dispossess, on the high mountains, and on the hills and under each leafy green tree.
2 Chronicles 33:17
Nevertheless, the people offered at the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.
Was no
1 Kings 5:3
"You knew David my father, that he was not able to build a house for the name of Yahweh his God, {in view of the warfare} which surrounded him, until Yahweh placed them under the soles of his feet.
1 Chronicles 17:4
"Go and say to David my servant, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You [are] not to build a house for me to live [in],
1 Chronicles 28:3
But God said to me, 'You may not build a house for my name because you [are] a man of war, and you have shed blood.'
Acts 7:47
But Solomon built a house for him.