1 Kings 3:2
However, the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for Yahweh’s name.
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- 1 Kings 22:43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
- 2 Chronicles 33:17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.
- Deuteronomy 12:2–4 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree. You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place. You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.