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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

1 Kings 3:3

Solomon loved Yahweh, by walking in the statutes of David his father, - save only, that, in the high places, he himself, was sacrificing and offering incense.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Dream;   Prayer;   Solomon;   Thompson Chain Reference - Imperfections, of Good Men;   Perfection-Imperfection;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Groves;   Sacrifice;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Solomon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kings, First and Second, Theology of;   Prayer;   Wisdom;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Intercession;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Pilgrimage;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - High Place;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Go;   High Place;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Altar;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - High Place;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Solomon loved the Lord by walking in the statutes of his father David, but he also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Hebrew Names Version
Shlomo loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
King James Version
And Solomon loved the Lord , walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
English Standard Version
Solomon loved the Lord , walking in the statutes of David his father, only he sacrificed and made offerings at the high places.
New Century Version
Solomon showed he loved the Lord by following the commands his father David had given him, except many other places of worship were still used to offer sacrifices and to burn incense.
New English Translation
Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following the practices of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
Amplified Bible
Now Solomon loved the LORD, walking [at first] in the statutes of David his father, except [for the fact that] he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places [ignoring the law that required all sacrifices to be offered at the tabernacle].
New American Standard Bible
Now Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he was sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Salomon loued the Lord, walking in the ordinances of Dauid his father: onely he sacrificed and offred incense in the hie places.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Contemporary English Version
Solomon loved the Lord and followed his father David's instructions, but Solomon also offered sacrifices and burned incense at the shrines.
Complete Jewish Bible
Shlomo loved Adonai , living according to the regulations set forth by David his father; nevertheless, he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
Darby Translation
And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father; only, he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Easy-to-Read Version
Solomon showed that he loved the Lord by obeying everything his father David told him to do, except that Solomon continued to go to the high places to offer sacrifices and to burn incense.
George Lamsa Translation
And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father; only he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Good News Translation
Solomon loved the Lord and followed the instructions of his father David, but he also slaughtered animals and offered them as sacrifices on various altars.
Lexham English Bible
Solomon loved Yahweh, by walking in the statutes of David his father; only he was sacrificing and offering incense on the high places.
Literal Translation
And Solomon loved Jehovah, to walk in the statutes of his father David. Only, he was sacrificing in high places and burning incense.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Salomon loued the LORDE, and walked after the ordinaunces of Dauid his father: excepte onely that he offred and brent incense vpon the hye places.
American Standard Version
And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Bible in Basic English
And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Solomon loued the Lorde, walking in the ordinaunces of Dauid his father: saue onely that he sacrificed and offered incense vpon aulters in hygh places.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father; only he sacrificed and offered in the high places.
King James Version (1611)
And Solomon loued the Lord, walking in the statutes of Dauid his father: onely he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Solomon loved the Lord, so as to walk in the ordinances of David his father; only he sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.
English Revised Version
And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Berean Standard Bible
And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David-except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Salomon louyde the Lord, and yede in the comaundementis of Dauid, his fadir, out takun that Salomon offride in hiye placis, and brente encense `in hiye places.
Young's Literal Translation
And Solomon loveth Jehovah, to walk in the statutes of David his father -- only, in high places he is sacrificing and making perfume --
Update Bible Version
And Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
World English Bible
Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
New King James Version
And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.
New Living Translation
Solomon loved the Lord and followed all the decrees of his father, David, except that Solomon, too, offered sacrifices and burned incense at the local places of worship.
New Life Bible
Now Solomon loved the Lord. He walked in the Laws of his father David. But he gave gifts and burned special perfume on different altars.
New Revised Standard
Solomon loved the Lord , walking in the statutes of his father David; only, he sacrificed and offered incense at the high places.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David, his father; only he sacrificed in the high places, and burnt incense.
Revised Standard Version
Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father; only, he sacrificed and burnt incense at the high places.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Contextual Overview

1 And Solomon contracted an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, - and took the daughter of Pharaoh, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem, round about. 2 Save only, that the people were sacrificing in the high places, - because there had not been built a house unto the Name of Yahweh, until those days, 3 Solomon loved Yahweh, by walking in the statutes of David his father, - save only, that, in the high places, he himself, was sacrificing and offering incense. 4 So then the king went to Gibeon, to sacrifice there, for, that, was the great high place, - a thousand ascending-sacrifices, did Solomon offer up on that altar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

loved: Deuteronomy 6:5, Deuteronomy 10:12, Deuteronomy 30:6, Deuteronomy 30:16, Deuteronomy 30:20, 2 Samuel 12:24, 2 Samuel 12:25, Psalms 31:23, Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:29, Mark 12:30, Romans 8:28, 1 Corinthians 8:3, James 1:12, James 2:5, 1 John 4:19, 1 John 4:20, 1 John 5:2, 1 John 5:3

walking: 1 Kings 3:6, 1 Kings 3:14, 1 Kings 2:3, 1 Kings 2:4, 1 Kings 11:34, 1 Kings 15:3, 1 Chronicles 28:8, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 2 Chronicles 17:3-5, John 14:15, John 14:21

only he: 1 Kings 15:14, 1 Kings 22:43, 2 Kings 12:3, 2 Kings 14:4, 2 Kings 15:4, 2 Kings 15:35, 2 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 18:22

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 14:4 - Solomon

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
And the man said, - The woman whom thou didst put with me, she, gave me of the tree, so I did eat.
Genesis 3:13
Then said Yahweh God to the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, the serpent, deceived me, so I did eat.
Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman, he said, I will, increase, thy pain of pregnancy, In pain, shalt thou year children, - Yet, unto thy husband, shall be thy hinging, Though, he, rule over thee.
Genesis 3:17
And, to the man, he said, Because thou didst hearken to the voice of thy wife, and so didst eat of the tree as to which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, Accursed be the ground for thy sake, In pain, shalt thou eat of it, all the days of thy life;
Genesis 20:6
And God said unto him in a dream, I, also, knew, that in the integrity of thy heart, thou didst this, so then, even I myself, withheld thee from sinning against me, for this reason, have I not suffered thee to touch her.
1 Chronicles 16:22
Ye may not touch mine Anointed ones, And, to my Prophets, may ye do no wrong.
Job 1:11
But, in very deed, put forth, I pray thee, thy hand, and smite all that he hath, - verily, unto thy face, will he curse thee.
Job 2:5
In very deed, put forth, I pray thee thy hand, and smite unto his bone, and unto his flesh, - verily, unto thy face, will he curse thee.
Job 19:21
Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me!
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now, concerning the things whereof ye wrote, it were, good, for a man, not to touch, a woman;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Solomon loved the Lord,.... The worship of the Lord, as the Targum: and which he showed by

walking in the statutes of David his father; in which his father walked, which were the statutes of the Lord, or which he exhorted him to walk in, and were the same, 1 Kings 2:3;

only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places; besides that at Gibeon, which it seems David did not.


 
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