1 Kings 3:3

3 Solomon loved the Lord and followed the instructions of his father David, but he also slaughtered animals and offered them as sacrifices on various altars.

1 Kings 3:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 3:3

And Solomon loved the Lord
The worship of the Lord, as the Targum: and which he showed by

walking in the statutes of David his father;
in which his father walked, which were the statutes of the Lord, or which he exhorted him to walk in, and were the same, ( 1 Kings 2:3 ) ;

only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places;
besides that at Gibeon, which it seems David did not.

1 Kings 3:3 In-Context

1 Solomon made an alliance with the king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. He brought her to live in David's City until he had finished building his palace, the Temple, and the wall around Jerusalem.

2 A temple had not yet been built for the Lord, and so the people were still offering sacrifices at many different altars.

3 Solomon loved the Lord and followed the instructions of his father David, but he also slaughtered animals and offered them as sacrifices on various altars.

4 On one occasion he went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices because that was where the most famous altar was. He had offered hundreds of burnt offerings there in the past.

5 That night the Lord appeared to him in a dream and asked him, "What would you like me to give you?"