1st Kings Chapter 3 verse 3 Holy Bible
And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
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And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.
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And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father; only, he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
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And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
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Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
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And Solomon loveth Jehovah, to walk in the statutes of David his father -- only, in high places he is sacrificing and making perfume --
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - And Solomon loved the Lord [thus keeping the first and great commandment, the "Shema Israel" (Deuteronomy 6:5; cf. Deuteronomy 30:16; Matthew 22:37; Luke 10:27)], walking in the statutes of David his father [i.e., those which David had kept (verses 6,14) and commanded him to keep (ch. 1 Kings 2:4)]: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places. [These words clearly show that the worship of the high places, although condoned, and indeed accepted, by God (ver. 5) was not strictly lawful and right. It was an ignorance that God winked at. The historian, remembering what the worship of the high places became, notices this as an imperfection of Solomon's early reign, though he does not say that such worship was sinful.
