1 Kings 3:3

3 Shlomo loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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 Shlomo made affinity with Par`oh king of Mitzrayim, and took Par`oh'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 Yerushalayim round about.

2 Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.

3 Shlomo loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

4 The king went to Giv`on to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Shlomo offer on that altar.

5 In Giv`on the LORD appeared to Shlomo in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give you.