'High Places' in the Bible

And he ordained priests for himself for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the Asherahs.

He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images. And the kingdom was quiet before him.

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

And his heart was lifted up in the ways of Jehovah. And he took away the high places and Asherahs out of Judah.

But, the high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts to the God of their fathers.

Besides he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the people of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and led astray Judah.

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

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

And when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the Asherahs, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, even to the end. And all the sons of Israel returned, each to his possession, into their own cities.

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

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

But the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to Jehovah their God.

and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the Matters of the Seers.

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still 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 Asherahs, and the carved images, and the molten images.