“Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.”
King James Version (KJV)
3:2 Only - This particle is used here, and ver.#3|, as anexception to Solomon's integrity and as a blemish to his government,That he himself both permitted and practised this which was expresslyforbidden, #Levit 17:3|,4 Deut 12:13,14.High places - Which were groves, or other convenient places upon hills, inwhich the patriarchs used to offer up their sacrifices to God; and from themthis custom was derived both to the Gentiles and the Jews: and inthem the Gentiles sacrificed to idols, the Hebrews to the true God.Because, &c. - Which reason was not sufficient, for there was atabernacle, to which they were as much confined as to the temple,#Ex 40:34 |- 38, &c.