1 Kings 3:2
Nevertheless the people burned incense on the high places, because a house had not yet been built to the Lord.
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Leviticus 17:5That the children of Israel may offer their sacrifices, all that they shall slay in the fields, and bring them to the Lord unto the doors of the tabernacle of witness to the priest, and they shall sacrifice them as a peace offering to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 12:2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places in which they served their gods, whose land ye inherit, on the high mountains and on the hills, and under the thick tree.
1 Kings 5:3and ten choice calves, and twenty pastured oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and choice fatted does.
1 Kings 15:14But he removed not the high places; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days.
1 Kings 22:44Only he took not away any of the high places: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
1 Chronicles 17:4Go and say to David my servant, Thus said the Lord, Thou shalt not build me a house for me to dwell in it.
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 →