1 Kings 3:2
But still the people immolated in the high places. For no temple had been built to the name of the Lord, even to that day.
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Leviticus 17:5Therefore, the sons of Israel must offer to the priest their victims, which they kill in the field, so that they may be sanctified to the Lord before the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and so that they may immolate them as peace offerings to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 12:2Overturn all the places where the nations, which you will possess, worshipped their gods on lofty mountains, and on hills, and under every leafy tree.
1 Kings 5:3“You know the will of my father David, and that he was not able to build a house to the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars that were imminent all around him, until the Lord set them under the steps of his feet.
1 Kings 15:14But the high places, he did not take away. Yet truly, the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord during all his days.
1 Kings 22:44Yet truly, he did not take away the high places. For still the people were sacrificing and burning incense in the high places.
1 Chronicles 17:4“Go, and speak to my servant David: Thus says the Lord: You shall not build a house for me as a dwelling place.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 3:2-5
Solomon Marries Pharaoh's Daughter. ( b. c. 1014.) 1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord , and the wall of Jerusalem round about. 2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord , until those days. 3 And Solomon loved the Lord , walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and… Read the whole commentary →