1 Kings 3:2

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Summary

Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

The people

Was no

Bible References

The people

Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,

I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:

Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.

Was no

"You know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yahweh put them under the soles of his feet.

"Go and tell David my servant, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You shall not build me a house to dwell in;

But God said to me, 'You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.'

But Solomon built him a house.