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."
— 1 Kings 3:2, Bible in Basic English
“Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.”
“Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.”
“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.”
“But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: for there was no temple built to the name of the Lord until that day.”
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.
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.
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.
And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon's way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar.
In Gibeon, Solomon had a vision of the Lord in a dream by night; and God said to him, Say what I am to give you.