“So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness.”
And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for the tent of meeting of God was there, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness — Gibeon serves as the legitimate cultic center because it housed the divinely ordained tabernacle (אֹהֶל־מוֹעֵד), the portable sanctuary built according to Mosaic instruction. The Chronicler traces the continuity of worship from wilderness wandering through the present moment, emphasizing that God's dwelling has always followed divinely prescribed architecture and location. The equation of Gibeon with legitimate worship foreshadows the future centrality of Jerusalem's temple. This passage affirms that Solomon approaches God through established, law-ordered channels of worship, not spontaneous or heterodox practice.
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