Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on 1 Kings 3:2

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the people: It was not right to offer sacrifices in any place but where the tabernacle and ark were; and wherever they were, whether on a high place or a plain, sacrifices might be lawfully offered, previously to building of the temple. The tabernacle was now at Gibeon ( Ch2 1:3), which was therefore called the great high place; whither we find Solomon, without censure, repaired to sacrifice. Kg1 22:43; Lev 17:3-6, Lev 26:30; Deu 12:2-5; Ch2 33:17 was no: Kg1 5:3; Ch1 17:4-6, Ch1 28:3-6; Act 7:47-49 3 Kings (1 Kings) 3:3

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