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Then he brought all of the priests from the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests from Geba up to Beersheba burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the governor of the city, which were on the left of each gate of the city.

Verse ConceptsGatesGovernorsHigh Places

Then the cook lifted up the leg (thigh) with the meat that was on it [indicating that it was the priest’s honored portion] and placed it before Saul. Samuel said, “Here is what has been reserved [for you]. Set it before you and eat, because it has been kept for you until the appointed time, ever since I invited the people.” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

For the breast which is waved and the right leg which is lifted up on high I have taken from the children of Israel, from their peace-offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their right for ever from the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsWave OfferingsThighs Of AnimalsFood For Priests Defined

After he had slaughtered all the priests who served at the high places and burned their bones on those high places, he returned to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsCremationHigh PlacesKilling PriestsBones

{Vav} Her tabernacle - which was like a garden of pleasure - hath he destroyed; her high solemn feasts hath he put down. The LORD hath brought it so to pass, that the high solemn feasts and Sabbaths in Zion are clean forgotten. In his heavy displeasure hath he made the king and priests to be despised.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalDecayDestruction Of The TempleGod Living In The TabernacleBoothsForgetting ThingsDeposed PriestsFestivals DisregardedSabbath Violated

Moreover, the altar which [was] in Bethel, the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin, had built, even that altar and the high place, [Josiah] tore down. Then he burned down the high place and crushed [the] pole of Asherah worship to dust and burned it with fire.

Verse ConceptsGrindingAltars, Pagan

(Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.)

Verse ConceptsThe Altar Of The Lord

Only, the high places have not turned aside -- yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places; he hath built the high gate of the house of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsSolomon's TempleGateways Of The TempleIncense Offered Amiss

To a high mountain, get ye up, O herald - band of Zion, Lift high with strength your voice, O herald - band of Jerusalem, - Lift it high, do not fear, Say to the cities of Judah - Lo! your God!

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofevangelism, nature ofClimbingGospel, Descriptions OfHeraldVoicesWatchfulness, Of BelieversNames And Titles For ChristGood TidingsHe Is Our God

And I shall lift up mine eyes, and I shall see, and behold, one ram stood before the stream, and horns to him: and the horns high; and the one high above the second, and the high came up at the last.

Verse ConceptsRamsLong ThingsHorns In AllegoryTwo Of Body Parts

Thy high stomach and the pride of thy heart have deceived thee; Because thou wilt dwell in the holes of stony rocks, and have the high mountains in possession. Nevertheless, though thy nest were as high as the Eagles, yet will I cast thee down, sayeth the LORD.

Verse ConceptsNestsProud HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedHumiliationEaglesPride, Results OfRocksSelf DeceptionPride, Results InBirds, Types Of BirdsDeceiving Oneself

If thou shalt see the oppression of the poor one, and the spoiling of judgment and justice in a province, thou shalt not wonder at the inclination: for the high one above the high one is watching, and the high ones over them.

Verse ConceptsOppressorsAuthorityNot Helping The PoorInjusticeoppressionsurprises

Thus saith the Lord GOD, I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon a high mountain and eminent:

Verse ConceptsTendernessMessianic PropheciesMetaphorical PlantingThe Mountains Of Israel

Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes into it to see the disease, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfEmptyingUnclean Things

But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of PossessionsPoverty, Remedies ForPoor People

And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FathersCurbing SpeechUnnamed Priests

He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesPriests, Institution In Ot Times

Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; so did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

Verse ConceptsNew Year, TheMonth 8the anniversary Feasts

He removed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained [to] burn incense on the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem and who offered incense to, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.

Verse ConceptsConstellationsHigh PlacesMoonPriests, Institution In Ot TimesShrinesIncense Offered AmissIdolatrous Worship Of The Moon

He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said, "Altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name. On you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men's bones on you.'"

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsSanctity Of LifeBirths ForetoldDuplicating WordsBonesBurning Idolatrous ThingsMan Of God

Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places, the goat-demons, and the golden calves he had made.

Verse ConceptsCalvesShrinesGolden CalvesThirty

But, many of the priests and the Levites and the ancestral chiefs, who were old men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, were weeping with a loud voice, - many, however, shouting and rejoicing, with voice raised on high;

Verse ConceptsecstasyRejoicing In God's WorksThe First Temple

"My God, I am too ashamed and hurt to turn to you, because we're in our iniquities over our heads. Furthermore, my God, our sins have grown as high as the heavens. We have lived in great sin from the days of our ancestors even until today, and because of those iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered over to foreign kings, for execution, for captivity, for plunder, and for humiliation, as is the case today.

Verse ConceptsIniquity, Punishment ForHumiliation

For thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the [bronze] pillars, the [bronze] Sea, the [bronze] bases [of the ten basins in Solomon’s temple used for washing sacrificial animals], and the rest of the articles that are left in this city (Jerusalem),

Verse ConceptsPillars For Solomon's Temple

Wherefore, I will give their wives unto aliens, and their fields to destroyers. For from the lowest to the highest, they follow all filthy lucre: and from the Prophet unto the priest, they deal all with lies.

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofGreed, Condemnation OfProfitsMen DeceivingWicked ProphetsGreat And SmallTransferring WivesGreedWifespousepracticecheatersothers

For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

Verse ConceptsHillsSacred PlacesPolytheismObelisksServing Asherah

Only the high places were not removed; the people [were] still sacrificing and offering incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered Amiss

Only he did not remove the high places; the people [were] still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered Amiss

and words as an adversary of the Most High it doth speak, and the saints of the Most High it doth wear out, and it hopeth to change seasons and law; and they are given into its hand, till a time, and times, and a division of a time.

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, Examples OfBetrayalBetrayal, To The ChristianHistorySeasons, Of LifeThe PopeThree And A Half YearsBlasphemyUniverse ChangedTo Be Given Into One's HandsBurnoutChangeSchedulesRebellion of Satan and AngelsSeasons Changing

He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesGood Kings Examples OfIncense Offered AmissPeople Who Did RightSacrificing On The High Places

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

Verse ConceptsPower, God's SavingPrincipalities And PowersRebellion of Satan and Angels

Only the high places were not removed; the people [were] still making sacrifices and offering incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsShrinesIncense Offered Amiss

he shall dwell on high, the fortresses of the rocks shall be his high retreat; bread shall be given him, his water shall be sure.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodWaterFortsStones For ProtectionPeople Providing Food

Therefore said I unto them, What! a high-place, whereinto ye are entering, And so the name thereof hath been called High-place, unto this day.

And out of the high seat came flames and voices and thunders. And seven lights of fire were burning before the high seat, which are the seven Spirits of God;

Verse ConceptsLightningSpiritsSymbolsThunderSeven SpiritsSeven LightsFire Of The SpiritRumblingThe RainbowThunder Showing God's Presence

And before the high seat there was, as it seemed, a clear sea of glass; and in the middle of the high seat, and round about it, four beasts full of eyes round about.

Verse ConceptsCrystalsMineralsSeaCherubim, At God's ThroneFour CreaturesSea Of GlassTransparencyEyes In ProphecyIn FrontFront And BackExpanse Of The SeaThe OceanThe Sea

The four and twenty rulers go down on their faces before him who is seated on the high seat, and give worship to him who is living for ever and ever, and take off their crowns before the high seat, saying,

Verse ConceptsSittingGod Sitting In GloryTwenty SomeCrowns For God's PeopleElders In HeavenSpecific Praising Of GodTwenty Four EldersSpiritual crownsThe Elderlyelderscrownsadoration

And all the angels were round about the high seat, and about the rulers and the four beasts; and they went down on their faces before the high seat, and gave worship to God, saying,

Verse ConceptsCreaturesProstrationThroneWorship, Times ForHeaven, Worshiping GodBeastsAngels SingingWorshiping TogethereldersadorationAngelic Beings Praising GodThousands Of Angels Worship God

This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them.

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightNightService To GodRest, EternalThe Presence Of ChristGod Sitting In GloryThe Temple In HeavenHeavennot celebrating christmasWorshiping GodServing GodServing The Churchshelterrevelation

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Verse ConceptsTowersBrooks

I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

Verse ConceptsHumilityPromotionIndividuals going homeHumbling Oneself

Or does [the] eagle fly high at your command and construct its nest high?

Verse ConceptsNestsCommands, in OTBirds, Types Of BirdsEaglessoaring

For He bowed down the dwellers on high, A city set on high He maketh low, He maketh it low unto the earth, He causeth it to come unto the dust,

Verse ConceptsHumiliationHumilityPride, Results OfHumbling The ProudDestruction Of CitiesPutting Things Down

Set on high is Jehovah, for He is dwelling on high, He filled Zion with judgment and righteousness,

Verse ConceptsCivic RighteousnessA Righteous PeopleJerusalem In Millennial KingdomGod Being Outside Of Creationfairness

And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it and have done it.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenSmall ThingsMoist ThingsHarming TreesPutting Things DownThings Lifted UpThings On High

By the hand of thy servants Thou hast reviled the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of hills, The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the high place of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.

Verse ConceptsChariotsCedarFelling TreesTrusting In Chariots

Lo, My servant doth act wisely, He is high, and hath been lifted up, And hath been very high.

Verse ConceptsExaltation Of Christservanthood

Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel.

Verse ConceptsSamaritansreuniting

Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of PillarsPomegranates

And from the base on the earth level to the lower shelf, the altar is two cubits high and a cubit wide; and from the smaller shelf to the greater shelf it is four cubits high and a cubit wide.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

And the fireplace is four cubits high: and coming up from the fireplace are the horns, a cubit high.

Verse ConceptsHornsFour Horns

"Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!

Verse ConceptsAstronomyGod On HighThings On High

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because that thou hast been high in stature, And he yieldeth his foliage between thickets, And high is his heart in his haughtiness,

Verse ConceptsHeightSelf ExaltationThings On High

And all the people also cut down each one his bough, and go after Abimelech, and set them at the high place, and burn by these the high place with fire, and also all the men of the tower of Shechem die, about a thousand men and women.

Verse ConceptsA Thousand PeopleBurning CitiesKilling Within IsraelPrivate Rooms

And the roof was Cedar above on high upon the beams that lay a high on the pillars, which pillars were forty and five in number, fifteen on a row,

Verse ConceptsFifteenForties

He shall send down from on high to fetch me, and shall take me out of many waters. {TYNDALE: He sent from on high and fetched me, and plucked me out of mighty waters.}

Verse ConceptsBringing People Out Of Other PlacesThe Oceantransition

He maketh my feet like hart's feet, and setteth me up on high. {TYNDALE: And maketh my feet as swift as a hind's, and setteth me fast upon my high hold.}

Verse ConceptsFeetHigh PlacesTypes Of FeetFeet SecureCare Of FeetDeer Etc.DeerLeadership Qualitiesjumping

and his heart is high in the ways of Jehovah, and again he hath turned aside the high places and the shrines out of Judah.

Verse ConceptsDesires For HolinessHigh PlacesLoyaltyShrinesRenewed Heart

To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high in safety.

Verse ConceptsSafetyProsperityGod Lifting PeopleNot Mourning

{A song of the stairs} LORD, I am not high-minded; I have no proud looks. I do not exercise myself in great matters which are too high for me.

Verse ConceptsPride, Evil OfSuperiorityHaughtinessHumble PeopleExercisemyself

For I have oft seen the ungodly brought to their graves, and fallen down from the high and glorious place; insomuch that they were forgotten in the city where they were had in so high and great reputation. This is also a vain thing.

Verse ConceptsOblivionVanityUseless EndeavourBurying places


And I said, “This is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed [and His lovingkindness is withheld].”

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodRight Hand Of God

See that ye destroy all places where the nations which ye conquer serve their gods, upon high mountains and on high hills and under every green tree.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenHigh PlacesHillsDestruction Of Satan's WorksWorship At Trees

He also made two pillars 35 cubits high for the front of the Temple, topped by a capital that was five cubits high.

Verse ConceptsTwo Parts Of Constructions

And after driving out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, have you not made priests for yourselves as the people of other lands do? so that anyone who comes to make himself priest by offering an ox or seven sheep, may be a priest of those who are no gods.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesConsecration


I will rejoice and exult in you;
I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

Verse ConceptsPraiseDelighting, Right Kinds OfSinging

Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel the scribe, from the Levites, recorded them in the presence of the king, the officers, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar [the priest who escaped Saul’s massacre at Nob], and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; one father’s household taken for Eleazar and one taken for Ithamar.

Then he must bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and the priest must scoop out from there a handful of its choice wheat flour and some of its olive oil in addition to all of its frankincense, and the priest must offer its memorial portion up in smoke on the altar -- it is a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFlourAromasGrain OfferingPriests, Function In Ot TimesSmellsOther Volume MeasuresRefreshing God

So the Levites and all Judah acted in accordance with everything that Jehoiada the priest had commanded; and every man took his men who were to resume duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss [any of] the divisions [from their duties].

Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water. And afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.

Verse ConceptsClean ClothesPeople Being PollutedUnclean Until Evening

And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:

Verse ConceptsClayDust, Literal UseHoly VesselsWeed

And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:

Verse ConceptsAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingBad WaterBitter WaterOther References To HairRegulations For Cereal OfferingsThose Jealous For People

Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

Verse ConceptsWasteThighsSwellingPeople Bound By OathsSwearing

And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.

Verse ConceptsAnimal Sacrifices, Heave OfferingSwingingDrinking Wine

So Uriah the priest built the altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus; thus Uriah the priest did before King Ahaz came from Damascus.

Verse ConceptsBuilding Altars

Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the army, and said unto them, Bring her forth between the ranks: and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.

And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the disease has not spread in the house, after the house was plastered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the disease is healed.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingInspectingmold

And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.

Verse ConceptsAtonement, in OTSin OfferingPriests Atoning

And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the discharge of her uncleanness.

Verse ConceptsPriests Atoning

The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.

Verse ConceptsAnimal Sacrifices, Wave OfferingSwingingFirst fruits

Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Priestly ResponsibilitiesAccess To God, In Old TestamentMediatorPriesthood, In OtServanthood, And Worship Of GodExclusionDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is Near

And the priest shall look on the disease in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the disease is turned white, and the disease in sight is deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a disease of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.

Verse ConceptsHairsThe Hair Of The BodyWhite HairHairAbscess

And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the disease in his sight is unchanged, and the disease spreads not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:

Verse ConceptsSpreadingThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSeven DaysDay 7Seven Days For Legal Purposes

And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the disease is somewhat dark, and the disease spreads not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

Verse ConceptsRitual WashingSpreadingWashingThe Seventh Day Of The WeekBlemished PeopleClean ClothesDay 7

But if the scab spreads much abroad in the skin, after that he has been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again:

Verse ConceptsSpreading

And if the priest sees that, behold, the scab spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.

Verse ConceptsSpreading

And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the disease is turned to white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that has the disease: he is clean.

Verse ConceptsWhite Spots

And if, when the priest sees it, behold, it is in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof is turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a disease of leprosy broken out of the boil.

Verse ConceptsThe Hair Of The BodyWhite Hair

But if the priest looks on it, and, behold, there is no white hairs therein, and if it is not lower than the skin, but is somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:

Verse ConceptsShallownessSeven DaysThe Hair Of The BodyWhite HairSeven Days For Legal Purposes