New Revised Standard Version
The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
At that time, there was no temple for worshiping the LORD, and everyone offered sacrifices at the local shrines.

New American Bible
The people were sacrificing on the high places, however, for up to that time no house had been built for the name of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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 yet the people sacrificed in the high places: for there was no temple built to the name of the Lord until that day.

1 Kings 1:3 So they sought a beautiful young woman, in all the coasts of Israel and they found Abisag, a Sunamitess, and brought her to the king.

) which was therefore called the great high place; whither we find Solomon, without censure, repaired to sacrifice.

1 Kings 22:43 And he walked in all the way of Asa, his father, and he declined not from it: and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. [44] Nevertheless, he took not away the high places for as yet the people offered sacrifice, and burnt incense in the high places.

Leviticus 17:3-6 Any man whosoever of the house of Israel, if he kill an ox, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp, or without the camp, . . .

Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

Deuteronomy 12:2-5 Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree: . . .

2 Chronicles 33:17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places to the Lord their God.

was no

1 Kings 5:3 Thou knowest the will of David, my father, and that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars that were round about him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.

1 Chronicles 17:4-6 Go, and speak to David my servant: Thus saith the Lord: Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in. . . .

1 Chronicles 28:3-6 And God said to me: Thou shalt not build a house to my name: because thou art a man of war, and hast shed blood. . . .

Acts 7:47-49 But Solomon built him a house, . . .