John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 3. And Solomon loved the Lord , etc.] The worship of the Lord, as the Targum: and which he showed by walking in the statutes of David his father ; in which his father walked, which were the statutes of the Lord, or which he exhorted him to walk in, and were the same, ( 1 Kings 2:3); only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places ; besides that at Gibeon, which it seems David did not.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-4 - He that loved the Lord, should, for his sake, have fixed his love upo one of the Lord's people. Solomon was a wise man, a rich man, a grea man; yet the brightest praise of him, is that which is the character of all the saints, even the poorest, "He loved the Lord." Where God sow plentifully, he expects to reap accordingly; and those that truly love God and his worship, will not grudge the expenses of their religion. We must never think that wasted which is laid out in the service of God.
Original Hebrew ויאהב157 שׁלמה8010 את853 יהוה3068 ללכת1980 בחקות2708 דוד1732 אביו1 רק7535 בבמות1116 הוא1931 מזבח2076 ומקטיר׃6999
