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'High Places' in the Bible

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

High PlacesDestruction Of Satan's WorksInadequate BurialsNo IncenseFate Of IdolatersGod Hating People

For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

Burning CitiesArnon

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.

Balaams DonkeyBaal Worship, HistorySeeing People

Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

High PlacesShrinesGoldsmithsDestruction Of Satan's Works

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

Fruitfulness, NaturalFoodFlintHigh PlacesOilHoneyProvision From RocksProvision Of Oil

Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

HelpfulnessHigh PlacesRefugeShieldsSpiritual Warfare, ArmourSwordsGod Being Our ShieldUnique IsraelGod HelpsGod's SwordExcellence

Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

Courage, Examples OfLife DespisedRisking

When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

CavesRocksPeople In CavesHiding From PeopleCaves As Places Of Refuge

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

People StumblingDrawbacks To Man's PowerKilling Named Individuals

Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

Sacrificing On The High Places

And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

Incense Offered AmissThose Loving GodSacrificing On The High Places

The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. Solomon would offer up a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.

Generosity, HumanOfferingsPilgrimageSacrifice, In OtA Thousand AnimalsSacrifice On The Bronze Altar

He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.

Incense Offered AmissServing One's Own Gods

And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

High PlacesPriests, Institution In Ot Times

And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

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And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.

Divine ManifestationsSanctity Of LifeBirths ForetoldDuplicating WordsBonesBurning Idolatrous ThingsMan Of God

For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

ShrinesMan's Words Fulfilled

After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

Priests, Institution In Ot TimesSuperstitionConsecration

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

HillsSacred PlacesPolytheismObelisksServing Asherah

And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

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But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

ShrinesIncense Offered Amiss

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

Incense Offered Amiss

Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

Incense Offered Amiss

Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

Solomon's TempleGateways Of The TempleIncense Offered Amiss

And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

SecrecySecret SinsConcealment, Of SinActing In Secret

And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

High PlacesGod's Intolerance Of EvilProvoking GodIncense Offered AmissSacrificing On The High Places

Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

Sacrificing On The High Placesgroups

So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

Individuals Fearing God

He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

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But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

Shrines

For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

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And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

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And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

GatesGovernorsHigh Places

Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

The Altar Of The Lord

And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

AbominationsFalse GodsHillsAbominations, Idolatry IsPolluting The LandServing Asherah

And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

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And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

CremationHigh PlacesKilling PriestsBones

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

CalvesShrinesGolden CalvesThirty

For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

High PlacesShrinesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

Also he took away 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: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

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

Desires For HolinessHigh PlacesLoyaltyShrinesRenewed Heart

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

ComplacencyHalf Heartedness

Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.

Guidance, Need For God'sSpiritual Harlotry

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

Shrines

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

High PlacesProvoking GodShrinesTown

Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

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Hath 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 burn incense upon it?

High Places

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

Building Altars

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.

Shrines

His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

Answered PrayerUnfaithfulness, To God

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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

Children, Good Examples OfPurgingYouthful Devotionteenager

Who alone stretches out the heavensAnd tramples down the waves of the sea;

ChaosCreation Of The Physical HeavensCreation Of The SkyEclipsefootprints

Your remembrances are similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.

ClayAshes

Also, now, lo, in the heavens is my witness, And my testifier in the high places.

Appealing To GodThe Witness Of God

Save me from the mouth of a lion: -- And -- from the horns of the high places Thou hast answered me!

HornsMouthsDeliverance From LionsWild OxUnicorns

Set your heart to her bulwark, Consider her high places, So that ye recount to a later generation,

Teaching ChildrenHer Strength

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

AbhorGod, Suffering OfGod, Zeal OfGod, JealousGod Opposes Idolatry

Praise ye Jah! Praise ye Jehovah from the heavens, Praise ye Him in high places.

Praise The Lord!

She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

Paths

she hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the summits of the high places of the city,

For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

When men shall fear in high places, and be afraid in the streets; when the Almond tree shall be despised, the grasshopper born out, and when great poverty shall break in; when man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.

GrasshoppersFeeblenessMournersAlmond TreesAcrophobiaSlownessWhite HairMourning DeathCondition Of The SpiritFear Will Comeenergymarketing

To enter into cavities of the rocks, And into clefts of the high places, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency, In His rising to terrify the earth.

Earth, Judgment OfPeople In CavesTremblingTerror Of God

Fled away hath Madmenah, The inhabitants of the high places have hardened themselves.

He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

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When the Moabites plead with all their might at their high places, and enter their temples to pray, their prayers will be ineffective!

FutilityFalse ReligionHigh Places

He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock are his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.

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But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

ShrinesDespisersRight Sacrifices

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

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That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

Coming Out Of DarknessGod Freeing Captives

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

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Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

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A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

ForgettingWeepingConviction Of Sinimpulsiveness

At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

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Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

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And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

God, Human Descriptions OfBalaams DonkeyFalse GodsChild sacrificeAbsence Of ThoughtShrines

The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

SafetyThose Who DestroyNo Peace

And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

Famine, Characteristics OfHaving No BreathWild Donkeys

O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.

High PlacesTreasureborders

And if ye do not hearken unto me to sanctify the day of rest, And so as not to bear a burden, And to come in at the gates of Jerusalem on the day of rest, Then I have kindled a fire in its gates, And it hath consumed the high places of Jerusalem, And it is not quenched!'

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They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

Absence Of ThoughtSanctity Of LifeShrinesBaal Worship, Nature OfChild sacrificeSacrificeKids

Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

ForestsProphecy, Methods Of OtZion, As A SymbolArchaeologyProphesyingDestruction Of JerusalemMetaphorical PloughingNamed Prophets Of The Lord

So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.

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And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

AbominationsFalse GodsChild sacrificeHigh PlacesAbsence Of ThoughtShrinesValleys

Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.

ShrinesNo IncensePeople EndedSacrificing On The High Places

Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.

BabylonFortressesSkyThose Who DestroyGoing Up To HeavenSky, Figurative UseHer Strength

And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

War As God's Judgment

In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

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