1 Kings 3:2 References

2 aThe people were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord until those days.

a Leviticus 17:3-5, Deuteronomy 12:2, Deuteronomy 12:13, Deuteronomy 12:14, 1 Kings 22:43

Leviticus 17

3 "Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp,

4 and ahas not brought it to the doorway of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, bloodguiltiness is to be reckoned to that man. He has shed blood and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

5 "The reason is so that the sons of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they were sacrificing in the open field, that they may bring them in to the Lord, at the doorway of the tent of meeting to the priest, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12

2 "You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the ahigh mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

Deuteronomy 12

13 "aBe careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see,

Deuteronomy 12

14 but in the place which the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

1 Kings 22

43 aHe walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the Lord. bHowever, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.