Then did Solomon build, i. e. suffer to be built, or gave money for it. A high place, i.e. an altar upon the high place, as the manner of the heathens was: See Poole on "Numbers 22:41" See Poole on "Numbers 23:1". In the hill that is before Jerusalem, i.e. in the Mount of Olives, which was nigh unto Jerusalem, 2 Samuel 15:30, and from this act was called the mount of corruption, 2 Kings 23:13; idolatry being often called and esteemed a corruption.
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1 Kings 11:7
7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.