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1 Kings 3:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" However, the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for the LORD’s name. "

1 Kings 3:2

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1 Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into David’s city until he had finished building his own house, the LORD’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.

2 However, the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for the LORD’s name.

3 Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

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2 Kings 15:35

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"However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the LORD’s house."

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

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"So they feared the LORD, and also made from among themselves priests of the high places for themselves, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places."

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"However the high places were not taken away, and the people had still not set their hearts on the God of their fathers."

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"Some of the heads of fathers’ households, when they came to the LORD’s house which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for God’s house to set it up in its place."

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1 Kings 9:25

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"Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the LORD three times per year, burning incense with them on the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house."

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1 Kings 3:1

"Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into David’s city until he had finished building his own house, the LORD’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem."

1 Kings 3:3

"Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places."

1 Kings 3:4

"The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar."

1 Kings 3:5

"In Gibeon, the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”"

1 Kings 3:6

"Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today."

1 Kings 3:7

"Now, LORD my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in."

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