1 Kings 3:2
But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: far there was no temple built to the name of the Lord until that day.
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Leviticus 17:5Therefore the children of Israel shall bring to the priest their victims, which they kill in the field, that they may be sanctified to the Lord before the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and they may sacrifice them for peace offerings to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 12:2Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:
1 Kings 5:3Thou knowest the will of David my father, and that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars that were round about him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 15:14But the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days:
1 Kings 22:44Nevertheless he took not away the high places: for as Set the people offered sacrifices and burnt incense in the high places.
1 Chronicles 17:4Go, and speak to David my servant: Thus saith the Lord: Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in.
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 →