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1 Kings 22 43
He walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them but did what was right in the LORD’s sight. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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Deuteronomy 12:2-5
Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods— on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.Don’t worship the LORD your God this way.Instead, turn to the place the LORD your God chooses from all your tribes to put his name for his dwelling and go there.
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Acts 7:47-49
It was Solomon, rather, who built him a house,but the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says:Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool. What sort of house will you build for me? says the Lord, or what will be my resting place?
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1 Kings 5 3
“ You know my father David was not able to build a temple for the name of the LORD his God. This was because of the warfare all around him until the LORD put his enemies under his feet.
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Leviticus 17:3-6
Anyone from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, sheep, or goat in the camp, or slaughters it outside the camp,instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before his tabernacle— that person will be considered guilty. He has shed blood and is to be cut off from his people.This is so the Israelites will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they have been offering in the open country. They are to bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting and offer them as fellowship sacrifices to the LORD.The priest will then splatter the blood on the LORD’s altar at the entrance to the tent of meeting and burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 33 17
However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.
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1 Chronicles 17 4-1 Chronicles 17 6
“ Go to David my servant and say,‘ This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.From the time I brought Israel out of Egypt until today I have not dwelt in a house; instead, I have moved from one tent site to another, and from one tabernacle location to another.In all my journeys throughout Israel, have I ever spoken a word to even one of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, asking: Why haven’t you built me a house of cedar?’
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Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, cut down your shrines, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.
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1 Chronicles 28 3-1 Chronicles 28 6
but God said to me,‘ You are not to build a house for my name because you are a man of war and have shed blood.’“ Yet the LORD God of Israel chose me out of all my father’s family to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah, my father’s family, and from my father’s sons, he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.And out of all my sons— for the LORD has given me many sons— he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the LORD’s kingdom over Israel.He said to me,‘ Your son Solomon is the one who is to build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
