A moment in scripture
1 Kings 3:1
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And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Kings 3:2
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.
- 1 Kings 3:3
And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.