Solomon finished the building of Jerusalem, and he at least suffered idolatry in it, 1 Kings 11:4,8. People have always been so fond of worshipping God according to their own fancies and inventions, that even in Judah (except in David's time) the worship of God could hardly be preserved pure during the entire reign of one king. As if they had done it on purpose to provoke me to destroy the city, and cast the people of it out. Nothing more easy than for people to keep close to the Divine rule, as to external acts in worship; nothing is more provocative of God than their doing the contrary. Yet nothing hath been more rarely done in any nation, as if men had set themselves to dare a jealous God.

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