1 Kings 3:2 Cross References - VIN

² The people were sacrificing at various high places because the temple had not yet been built and dedicated to the LORD.

³ "Any Israelite who slaughters a bull, sheep, or goat inside or outside the camp ⁴ and doth not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD, before the tabernacle of the LORD, blood shall be reckoned unto that man: he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people, ⁵ "This means that the people of Israel must take the sacrifices they have been making in the open fields and bring them to the LORD. They must bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The people will sacrifice them as peace offerings to the LORD. ⁶ The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of the LORD at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to the LORD.

³⁰ 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.

² "Destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. ³ »Tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars. Burn their Asherah poles with fire. Cut down the carved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place. ⁴ You shall not worship the LORD your God like this. ⁵ ¶ But ye shall seek the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there for his habitation, and thou shalt go there.

³ "Thou knowest of David my father, how he could not build a house unto the name of the LORD his God for war which he had on every side, until the LORD had put them under his foot.

⁴³ Like his father Asa before him, he did what was right in the sight of the LORD. However the places of worship were not destroyed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

⁴ "Go tell my servant David, This is what the LORD says: 'You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in. ⁵ "I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling place to another. ⁶ "In all the places where I have moved with the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders whom I commanded to shepherd my people: Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"

³ 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.' ⁴ But the LORD, the God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For He has chosen Judah to be the ruler, and of the house of Judah the house of my father. And in my father's house He was pleased to make me king over all Israel. ⁵ And of all my sons, for the LORD has given me many sons, He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD, over Israel. ⁶ He said to me, 'Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

¹⁷ Even so, the people continued to sacrifice in the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

⁴⁷ But it was Solomon who built the house for Him. ⁴⁸ However, the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says: ⁴⁹ ‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?