And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
Ver. 3. And Solomon loved, the Lord.] Being first loved by him, his Jedidiah, his darling: for our love to God is but the reflex of his to us first. 1Jn 4:19
Only he sacrificed, &c.] He climbed those misallowed hills; yet loveth he the Lord, and is loved of him. Such is the mercy of our God, that he rather pitieth than plagneth us for our well meant weaknesses, for the infirmities of upright hearts.