1. Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.
2. Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord.
3. Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following the practices of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
4. The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. Solomon would offer up a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.
5. One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell me what I should give you.”