1 Kings 3:3

3. Solomon loved the Lord This further shows that the sacrificing in high places was not the result of alienation from Jehovah.

Statutes of David Customs, usages, and laws of religious conduct practiced by David. But it does not appear that David ever sacrificed or burnt incense in high places. The contrary is implied in this verse; and it is more than intimated that though this worship was tolerated because not offered to false gods, and because there was no house yet built to Jehovah, still both Solomon and his people were censurable for allowing it such great extent and prominence, and thereby paving the way for future idolatry in Israel. It would have been safer and better to have sacrificed only before the ark of the covenant, as Solomon did after his return from Gibeon, (1 Kings 3:15;) or else only at Gibeon, where the tabernacle was. 1 Chronicles 16:39.