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What Does 2 Chronicles 1:3 Mean?

So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

Context

1

And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.

2

Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.

3

So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

4

But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

5

Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it. he put: or, was there

Commentary

Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers
(3) **The tabernacle of the congregation of God.**—Rather, *God’s tent of meeting;* viz., with man (Exodus 25:22; Exodus 27:21; Numbers 17:4). Solomon repaired to Gibeon because “that was the great high place” (1Kings 3:4). We learn from our text why Gibeon stood pre-eminent above the other high places. (Comp. 1Chronicles 6:31 *sqq.;* 1Chronicles 16:39 *sqq.*)

Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.

Historical Context

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