'High Places' in the Bible

And he appointed priests for him for the high places, and for the he-goats, and for the calves which he had made.

For he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,

Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images. And the kingdom was quiet before him.

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

And his heart was lifted up in the ways of LORD. And furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

However the high places were not taken away. Neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.

Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray.

And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

And in every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger LORD, the God of his fathers.

Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin,

Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and upon it ye shall burn incense?

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down. And he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to LORD their God.

Also his prayer, and how [God] was entreated by him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father. And in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven im