Catholic Public Domain Version
"But still the people immolated in the high places. For no temple had been built to the name of the Lord, even to that day."
— 1 Kings 3:2, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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 Jehovah 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.”
“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.”
“Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.”
And so the kingdom was confirmed in the hand of Solomon, and he was joined with Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, by affinity. For he took his daughter, and he led her into the city of David, until he completed building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.
But still the people immolated in the high places. For no temple had been built to the name of the Lord, even to that day.
Now Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David, his father, except that he immolated in the high places, and he burned incense.
And so, he went away to Gibeon, so that he might immolate there; for that was the greatest high place. Solomon offered upon that altar, at Gibeon, one thousand victims as holocausts.
Then the Lord appeared to Solomon, through a dream in the night, saying, “Request whatever you wish, so that I may give it to you.”