1 Kings 3:1

1 Kings 3:1 says, 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.  Solomon made peace with Pharoah and took his daughter and brought her to the city of David.  Matthew Henry says this may be one instance when Solomon didn't act wisely unless she was a proselyite, which she may have been since later when speaking of foreign gods Solomon was tempted by the Egyptian gods weren't mentioned.  Still, he says this would have been a case of being unevenly yoked.  We as followers of Christ should always try to marry another Christian to avoid this.  Verse two adds, Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.  The people sacrificed on the high places, which Matthew Henry says David never did.  David had focused worship on the Ark of the Covenant.  We need to keep our worship grounded in Jesus Christ and not just look for high places to display our worship.  Matthew Henry didn't say that Solomon was wrong in worshipping in the high places, but that there could be a temptation to worship the display of worship more than actually worshipping God.  We need to be careful that we don't start worshipping our church buildings more than we worship God.  Verse three continues, And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places. We are told that Solomon loved the Lord and kept the statutes of David, and then are told only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places, which separated him from the way David worshipped.  Again, we are not told that this was wrong, only that it was different.  We may worship differently than our parents did, and there is nothing wrong with this as long as we are sincerely worshipping God and the focus is on Him. Verse four concludes, And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar. We are then told that Solomon went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices to God, because there was a great high place there.  He offered a thousand sacrifices there, which tells that he was devout in worshipping, but  he was still possibly putting too much emphasis on the fact that this was a high place.  We need to be devoted to worshipping God, but our emphasis should never be more on the location than on God Himself.