2 Chronicles 1:3,4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Solomon, &c., went to the high place at Gibeon Upon which the tabernacle was placed; whence it is called the great high place, 1 Kings 3:4. But the ark, &c. David had separated the ark from the tabernacle, and brought it to Jerusalem, because there he intended to build a far more noble and lasting habitation for it.

2 Chronicles 1:3-4

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.