King James Version
1 Kings 3:2 in the King James Version says “Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.”
1 Kings 3:2 · KJV
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 round about.
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
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.
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properly, leanness, i.e., (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although
“Only the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“because there was no house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“unto the ~”
H8034an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“until those days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
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