Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Kings 3:2
Only the people sacrificed in (b) high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
(b) Where altars were appointed before the temple was built, to offer to the Lord.
Only the people sacrificed in (b) high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
(b) Where altars were appointed before the temple was built, to offer to the Lord.
Verse 1 Kings 3:2. _THE PEOPLE SACRIFICED IN HIGH PLACES_] Could there be any sin in this, or was it unlawful till after the temple was built? for prophets, judges, the kings which preceded Solomon,...
The word “only” introduces a contrast. The writer means to say that there was one exception to the flourishing condition of things which he has been describing, namely, that “the people sacrificed in...
2. JEHOVAH APPEARS TO SOLOMON HIS PRAYER AND THE ANSWER CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Affinity with Pharaoh and Pharaoh's daughter (1 Kings 3:1)_ 2. Solomon loved the LORD (1 Kings 3:2) 3. Jehovah appears to Sol...
1 KINGS 3:1 TO 1 KINGS 4:34. EARLY DAYS, REIGN, AND WISDOM OF SOLOMON. The sources of this section are various, and the arrangement of the narrative in the LXX should be noticed. There are (_a_) a sta...
ONLY. May imply regret rather than censure. Compare 1 Kings 15:14, &c. IN HIGH PLACES. Deuteronomy 12:11; Deuteronomy 12:14;...
1 Kings 3:1-4. Solomon marries Pharaoh's daughter. Sacrifices still offered on the high places. Solomon's sacrifice at Gibeon (2 Chronicles 1:3) At the beginning of this Chapter the LXX. inserts a lo...
_Only the people sacrificed_ The first word here seems to force us to connect this verse with the last clause of the previous chapter. The kingdom was established and all was well in temporal matters,...
IV. PHARAOH'S UNPRECEDENTED RECOGNITION OF Song of Solomon 3:1 TRANSLATION (1) Then Solomon became allied to Pharaoh king of Egypt by marriage, for he took the daughter of Pharaoh, and brought her u...
_ONLY THE PEOPLE SACRIFICED IN HIGH PLACES, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO HOUSE BUILT UNTO THE NAME OF THE LORD, UNTIL THOSE DAYS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
SOLOMON'S CHOICE This chapter relates how Solomon, out of various gifts offered to him by the Almighty, chose wisdom, and adds an illustration of the use he made of the gift with which he was endowed...
HIGH PLACES] Both the Canaanites (see Numbers 33:52; Deuteronomy 12:2) and the early Israelites (see 1 Samuel 9:12; 2 Samuel 15:30;...
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 3 GOD SPEAKS TO SOLOMON V1 Solomon made an agreement with Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Solomon married Pharaoh’s daughter. Solomon brough...
IN HIGH PLACES. — The historian, writing from the point of view of his own time, when, after the solemn consecration of the Temple, the worship at “the high places,” which form natural sanctuaries, wa...
רַ֣ק הָ עָ֔ם מְזַבְּחִ֖ים בַּ † בָּמֹ֑ות...
THE BOY-KING'S WISDOM 1 Kings 3:1 "An oracle is upon the lips of a king."- Proverbs 16:10 (Hebrews). "A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eye."- Proverbs...
THE YOUNG KING'S WISE CHOICE 1 Kings 3:1 The chapter opens doubtfully. The affinity with Pharaoh, and the two _onlys_ of 1 Kings 3:2 are not promising. See Deuteronomy 12:13. Yet there were hopeful f...
BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
The first brief paragraph in this chapter reveals at once Solomon's strength and weakness. He was strong, for he loved the Lord and walked in the statutes of his father David. However, there was the o...
But yet. It is not clear to what this refers. Hebrew, "for the rest, (Calmet) or only;" (as also ver. 3,) which may signify that the people, and their king, were blamable; or else, that they zealously...
(2) Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days. This sacrificing on high places is uniformly spoken of in the Old Testamen...
The books of First and Second Samuel show us the failure of the priesthood, and, in consequence, when a state of evident shame and dishonour overspread the face of Israel, the heart of the people desi...
But there is another element in the history of the king of glory, in which he oversteps the limits of the king of Israel's legitimate position; he allies himself with the Gentiles, and marries Pharaoh...
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...
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days. Ver. 2. _Only the people sacrificed in high places._] And Solomon not only per...
_Only the people sacrificed in high places_ Which were groves, or other convenient places upon hills. In such places the patriarchs had been wont to offer up their worship, and sacrifices to God; and...
1 Solomon marieth Pharaohs daughter. 2 Hie places being in vse, Solomon sacrificeth at Gibeon. 5 Solomon at Gibeon, in the choice which God gaue him, preferring wisedome, obtaineth wisedome, riches,...
Only the people sacrificed in high places, against the spirit of the Law, Deuteronomy 12:2, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO HOUSE BUILT UNTO THE NAME OF THE LORD UNTIL THOSE DAYS, and the custom of going to Gibe...
SOLOMON AT GIBEON...
SOLOMON RECEIVES WISDOM FROM GOD (vs.1-15) However, early in Solomon's reign he slipped into the snare of making a treaty with the king of Egypt. Israel had before escaped from the bondage of Egypt,...
1-4 He that loved the Lord, should, for his sake, have fixed his love upon one of the Lord's people. Solomon was a wise man, a rich man, a great man; yet the brightest praise of him, is that which is...
ONLY: this particle is used here and 1 KINGS 3:3, as an exception to Solomon's integrity and glory, and as his infirmity, and a blemish to his government, that he himself both permitted and practised...
1 Kings 3:2 people H5971 sacrificed H2076 (H8764) places H1116 house H1004 built H1129 (H8738) name H8034 LORD...
HIGH PLACES Compare (Leviticus 26:30); (Deuteronomy 12:11). The use of commanding elevations for altars seems to have been immemorial and universal. In itself the practice was not evil; (Genesis
CONTENTS: Alliance of Solomon and Pharoah. Marriage with Pharoah's daughter. Loses at Gibeon. Solomon's prayer. His wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, two women. CONCLUSION: The wisdom of God is laid...
1 Kings 3:1. _Solomon took Pharaoh's daughter._ It would appear from the 45th Psalm, which the rabbins with one consent affirm, was the nuptial ode for this marriage, that David had made arrangements...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 3:1 Although Solomon has displayed a worldly kind of wisdom in his treatment of those who were a threat to him (1 Kings 2:6,...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 3:2 THE HIGH PLACES. The continued growth of these local places of worship is one of the main concerns in 1–2 Kings (1 Kings 22:43;...
THE RULE OF WISDOM CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 3:1. PHARAOH, KING OF EGYPT—Probably Vaphres, but Winer suggests Psusennes. An alliance with so mighty a royal house shows that the Hebrew...
EXPOSITION THE BEGINNING OF SOLOMON'S REIGN.—In the preceding chapter we have seen the establishment of Solomon's rule (verse 46) by the removal of internal foes, _i.e; _of disaffected and rebellious...
Now Solomon begins the gathering of wives of which it seemed had no end. He made an affinity with the Pharaoh of Egypt, and he took the Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her to the city of David, until...
1 Chronicles 17:4; 1 Chronicles 28:3; 1 Kings 22:43; 1 Kings 5:3;...
Only — This particle is used here, and 1 Kings 3:3, as an exception to Solomon's integrity and as a blemish to his government, That he himself both permitted and practised this which was expressly for...