the people: It was not right to offer sacrifices in any place but where the tabernacle and ark were; and wherever they were, whether on a high place or a plain, sacrifices might be lawfully offered, previously to building of the temple. The tabernacle was now at Gibeon (2Ch 1:3), which was therefore called the great high place; whither we find Solomon, without censure, repaired to sacrifice. 1Ki 22:43; Lev 17:3-6, Lev 26:30; Deu 12:2-5; 2Ch 33:17
was no: 1Ki 5:3; 1Ch 17:4-6, 1Ch 28:3-6; Act 7:47-49