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Solomon Requests Wisdom

1 Now aSolomon made a treaty with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and married Pharaoh’s daughter; then he brought her bto the City of David until he had finished building his cown house, and dthe house of the Lord, and ethe wall all around Jerusalem.  
2 aMeanwhile the people sacrificed at the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord until those days.  
3 And Solomon aloved the Lord, bwalking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.  
4 Now athe king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, bfor that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.  
5 aAt Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon bin a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 Kings 3:3

HIGH PLACES BEING IN USE, HE SACRIFICES AT GIBEON. (I Kings 3:2-5)

And Solomon loved the Lord—This declaration, illustrated by what follows, affords undoubted evidence of the young king's piety; nor is the word "only," which prefaces the statement, to be understood as introducing a qualifying circumstance that reflected any degree of censure upon him. The intention of the sacred historian is to describe the generally prevailing mode of worship before the temple was built. The

high places were altars erected on natural or artificial eminences, probably from the idea that men were brought nearer to the Deity. They had been used by the patriarchs, and had become so universal among the heathen that they were almost identified with idolatry. They were prohibited in the law (Leviticus 17:3-4; Deuteronomy 12:13-14; Jeremiah 7:31; Ezekiel 6:3-4; Hosea 10:8). But, so long as the tabernacle was migratory and the means for the national worship were merely provisional, the worship on those high places was tolerated. Hence, as accounting for their continuance, it is expressly stated (I Kings 3:2) that God had not yet chosen a permanent and exclusive place for his worship.




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