1 Kings 3:2

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

1 Kings 3:2 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 3:2

Only the people sacrificed in high places
On the tops of their houses, on hills and mountains, and particularly at the high place in Gibeon, where the tabernacle was:

because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord until those
days;
to which they were obliged to repair as afterwards, and there offer their sacrifices, as the Lord had commanded, ( Deuteronomy 12:5 Deuteronomy 12:6 ) .

1 Kings 3:2 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.