The great high place; the most eminent and frequented, because there was the tabernacle and the altar of Moses, 1Ch_16:39 21:29 2Ch_1:3,5,6, which possibly were placed upon a high or raised ground.
A thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar; thereby showing his special respect to this above all other places, and by his example teaching and inviting all his people to do so.