'High' in the Bible

And in every several 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 that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the columns, and hewed down the Asherahs, and demolished the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. And all the children of Israel returned every man to his possession, into their cities.

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

And he built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars to the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshipped all the host of heaven and served them.

Nevertheless, the people sacrificed still on the high places, although to Jehovah their God only.

And his prayer, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, 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 words of Hozai.

And 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 Asherahs, and the graven images, and the molten images.

And they broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the sun-pillars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherahs and the graven images and the molten images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them and strewed it upon the graves of those that had sacrificed to them;

And they came to Hilkijah the high priest, and they delivered to them the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they built the sheep-gate. They hallowed it, and set up its doors; and they hallowed it even to the tower of Meah, to the tower of Hananeel.

After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another piece, from the angle to the entry of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

Palal the son of Uzai, over against the angle, and the high tower that lies out from the king's house, which was by the court of the prison. After him, Pedaiah the son of Parosh.

And Ezra the scribe stood upon a high stage of wood, which they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkijah, and Maaseiah on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddana, Zechariah, Meshullam.

And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; and I chased him from me.

Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king that Mordecai may be hanged on it: then go in merrily with the king to the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold, also, the gallows fifty cubits high, that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him on it!

Setting up on high those that are low; and mourners are exalted to prosperity.

Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the high waves of the sea;

Can any teach God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high.

But the powerful man, he had the land; and the man of high rank dwelt in it.

Dominion and fear are with him; he maketh peace in his high places.

For what would have been my portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?

He beholdeth all high things; he is king over all the proud beasts.

And the assembly of the peoples shall encompass thee; and for their sakes return thou on high.

I will praise Jehovah according to his righteousness, and will sing forth the name of Jehovah the Most High.

I will be glad and rejoice in thee; I will sing forth thy name, O Most High.

Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

And Jehovah thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.

Who maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places;

For the king confideth in Jehovah: and through the loving-kindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.

For in the day of evil he will hide me in his pavilion; in the secret of his tent will he keep me concealed: he will set me high upon a rock.

Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.

Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.

There is a river the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the sanctuary of the habitations of the Most High.

Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah.

Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah.

For Jehovah, the Most High, is terrible, a great king over all the earth.

God is known in her palaces as a high fortress.

Both men of low and men of high degree, rich and poor alike.

Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High;

I will call unto God, the Most High; unto God that performeth all for me.

{To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.} Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God; secure me on high from them that rise up against me.

Their strength! ... I will take heed to thee; for God is my high fortress.

But as for me, I will sing of thy strength; yea, I will sing aloud of thy loving-kindness in the morning; for thou hast been to me a high fortress, and a refuge in the day of my trouble.

Unto thee, my strength, will I sing psalms; for God is my high fortress, the God of my mercy.

From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my eart is overwhelmed: thou wilt lead me on to a rock which is too high for me.

He only is my rock and my salvation; my high fortress: I shall not be greatly moved.

He only is my rock and my salvation; my high fortress: I shall not be moved.

Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together lighter than vanity.

Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts in Man, and even for the rebellious, for the dwelling there of Jah Elohim.

But I am afflicted and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me secure on high.

And thy righteousness, O God, reacheth on high, thou who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee?

And they say, How can God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?

Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a stiff neck.

Then said I, This is my weakness: the years of the right hand of the Most High

Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;

And they remembered that God was their rock, and God, the Most High, their redeemer.

But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,

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

I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High;

That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth.

And of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; and the Most High himself shall establish her.

Thine is the arm of might: strong is thy hand, high is thy right hand.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Because thou hast made Jehovah, my refuge, the Most High, thy dwelling-place,

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

{A Psalm, a Song, for the Sabbath day.} It is good to give thanks unto Jehovah, and to sing psalms unto thy name, O Most High;

And thou, Jehovah, art on high for evermore.

Jehovah on high is mightier than the voices of many waters, than the mighty breakers of the sea.

But Jehovah will be my high tower; and my God the rock of my refuge.

For thou, Jehovah, art the Most High above all the earth; thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods.

Jehovah is great in Zion, and he is high above all the peoples.

Whoso secretly slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy; him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving-kindness toward them that fear him.

The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs, a refuge for the rock-badgers.

Because they had rebelled against the words of God, and had despised the counsel of the Most High; ...

But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction, and maketh him families like flocks.

Jehovah is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

Who is like unto Jehovah our God, who hath placed his dwelling on high;

For Jehovah is high; but he looketh upon the lowly, and the proud he knoweth afar off.

O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

My mercy and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I trust, who subdueth my people under me!

Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand:

Praise him with loud cymbals; praise him with high sounding cymbals.

On the top of high places by the way, at the cross-paths she taketh her stand.

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

And she sitteth at the entry of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

He loveth transgression that loveth a quarrel; he that maketh high his gate seeketh destruction.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own imagination.

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.

they are also afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the grasshopper is a burden, and the caper-berry is without effect; (for man goeth to his age-long home, and the mourners go about the streets;)

and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan;

and upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall;

In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

Behold the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, shall lop the boughs with violence; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be brought low;

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High: