1 Kings 3:2
The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.
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Leviticus 17:5For this reason the Israelites will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they have been offering in the open fields. They are to bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and offer them as sacrifices of peace to the LORD.
Deuteronomy 12:2Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
1 Kings 5:3“As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his feet.
1 Kings 15:14The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.
1 Kings 22:44Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.
1 Chronicles 17:4“Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell.
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 →