2 Chronicles 1:3

3 Then Solomon and all the assembly with him went to ¹the high place which was at Gibeon, ²for God's tent of meeting was there, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

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2 Chronicles 1:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 1:3

So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high
place that was at Gibeon
They agreed to his motion, and went with him thither, see ( 1 Kings 3:4 )

for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses
the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness:
by the Lord's direction; where was also the altar of the Lord, and so most proper to offer sacrifice on, which was what Solomon went thither to do; see ( 1 Chronicles 21:29 ) .

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

2 Chronicles 1:3 In-Context

1 Now Solomon the son of David established himself securely over his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and exalted him greatly.

2 Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every leader in all Israel, the heads of the fathers' households.

3 Then Solomon and all the assembly with him went to the high place which was at Gibeon, for God's tent of meeting was there, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

4 However, David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.

5 Now the bronze altar, which Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the LORD , and Solomon and the assembly sought it out.

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1. 1 Kings 3:4
2. Exodus 36:8

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