Bible verse
The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.
1 Kings 3:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Kings 3.
1 Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
2 The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.
3 And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
4 Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.
5 One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
6 Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
KJV
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
ASV
Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.
ERV
Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.
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