2Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built to the name of the LORD, until those days.


In Context

1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem on every side.

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

3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

1 Kings 3:2 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:2The people, however, were still sacrificing at the high places, because a temple had not yet been built for the Name of the Lord .

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:2Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:2But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: far there was no temple built to the name of the Lord until that day.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:2Only, the people sacrificed on the high places; for there was no house built to the name of Jehovah, until those days.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:2Only, the people are sacrificing in high places, for there hath not been built a house for the name of Jehovah till those days.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:2Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built to the name of the LORD, until those days.