Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
Holman Bible
However, the people were sacrificing on the high places,
International Standard Version
The people were sacrificing at various high places because the Temple had not yet been built and dedicated to the LORD.
A Conservative Version
Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of LORD until those days.
American Standard Version
Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.
Amplified
But [in the meantime] the people were still sacrificing [to God] on the high places (hilltops) [as the pagans did to their idols], for there was no [permanent] house yet built for the
Darby Translation
Only, the people sacrificed on the high places; for there was no house built to the name of Jehovah, until those days.
Julia Smith Translation
Only the people sacrificing in heights, for there was not a house, built to the name of Jehovah even to these days.
King James 2000
However the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But the people [were] sacrificing on the high places, for the house for the name of Yahweh had not [yet] been built in those days.
Modern King James verseion
Only the people sacrificed in high places because there was no house built to the name of Jehovah until those days.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Only the people sacrificed in altars made on hills, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD until those days.
NET Bible
Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord.
New Heart English Bible
Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.
The Emphasized Bible
Save only, that the people were sacrificing in the high places, - because there had not been built a house unto the Name of Yahweh, until those days,
Webster
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built to the name of the LORD, until those days.
World English Bible
Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.
Youngs Literal Translation
Only, the people are sacrificing in high places, for there hath not been built a house for the name of Jehovah till those days.
Themes
High places » A term used to describe places of worship
High places » God sometimes worshipped on
Interlinear
Bayith
Banah
Shem
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Kings 3:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Solomon's Walk With Yahweh
1 Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete. 2 But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days. 3 And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.
Cross References
1 Kings 22:43
He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
Deuteronomy 12:2-5
You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:
Leviticus 17:3-6
If any man of Israel puts to death an ox or a lamb or a goat, in or outside the tent-circle;
Leviticus 26:30
And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.
1 Kings 5:3
You have knowledge that David my father was not able to make a house for the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars which were round him on every side, till the Lord put all those who were against him under his feet.
1 Chronicles 17:4-6
Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:
1 Chronicles 28:3-6
But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have taken life;
2 Chronicles 33:17
However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
Acts 7:47-49
But Solomon was the builder of his house.