^{2 Ref} But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

^{3 Ref} 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.

^{4 Ref} And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon's way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar.