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1 Kings 3:1-3
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Solomon asks for wisdom

3 Solomon made an agreement with Pharaoh, who was the king of Egypt.[a] Solomon married Pharaoh's daughter. He brought her to live in the City of David.[b] She lived there until Solomon could finish building his own house, the Lord's temple, and the wall around Jerusalem.

2 Because there was not yet a temple where people could give honour to the Lord, they offered sacrifices at altars in other places.

3 Solomon loved the Lord and he obeyed the rules of his father David. But he offered sacrifices and he burned incense at altars in country places.[c]

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  1. 3:1 In this kind of agreement, their countries agreed to be friends of each other. There should be no wars between them.
  2. 3:1 Solomon's wife lived in her own house in the City of David. She lived there for 13 years, until Solomon built his palace. See 1 Kings 7:1.
  3. 3:3 ‘country places’ or ‘high places’. These were places where there was an altar for people to worship their gods. Sometimes they were on a hill.
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