1 Raja-raja 3:2

3:2 Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, ¹  because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord. ² 

1 Raja-raja 3:4

3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. ³  Solomon would offer up ⁴  a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.

1 Raja-raja 12:31

12:31 He built temples ⁵  on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites.

1 Raja-raja 13:2

13:2 With the authority of the Lord ⁶  he cried out against the altar, “O altar, altar! This is what the Lord says, ‘Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’” ⁷ 

1 Raja-raja 13:32

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ⁸  against the altar in Bethel ⁹  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ¹⁰  will certainly be fulfilled.”

[3:2]  ¹ sn Offering sacrifices at the high places. The “high places” were places of worship that were naturally or artificially elevated.

[3:2]  ² tn Heb “for the name of the Lord.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “to honor the Lord”). The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.

[3:4]  ³ tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”

[3:4]  ⁴ tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.

[12:31]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text has the singular, but the plural is preferable here (see 1 Kgs 13:32). The Old Greek translation and the Vulgate have the plural.

[13:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

[13:2]  ⁷ sn ‘Look…you.’ For the fulfillment of this prophecy see 2 Kgs 23:15-20.

[13:32]  ⁸ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ⁹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.