1. Now Solomon made a treaty with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and married Pharaoh’s daughter; then he brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall all around Jerusalem.
2. Meanwhile the people sacrificed at the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord until those days.
3. And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.
4. Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
5. At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”