'High' in the Bible

So Solomon returned from the Tent of Meeting at the high place in Gibeon to Jerusalem, where he reigned over Israel.

A portico extended in front of the Temple for its entire width of 20 cubits, and was 120 cubits high. Inside he had it overlaid with pure gold.

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

Solomon also constructed a bronze altar 20 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

Solomon had a bronze platform constructed five cubits square and three cubits high. He had it erected in the middle of the courtyard, and stood on it. Then he knelt down on his knees in front of the entire congregation of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,

Jeroboam had appointed his own priests to serve at the high places and to serve the satyrs and calves that he had made.

by removing the foreign altars and high places, tearing down the sacred pillars, cutting down the Asherim, and

He also removed the high places and incense altars from all of the cities of Judah. As a result, the kingdom enjoyed rest under Asa's leadership.

Nevertheless, the high places were not removed from Israel, even though Asa's heart was blameless all of his life.

He remained committed to following the LORD, and he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

However, the high places were not removed, since the people had not yet directed their hearts to the God of their ancestors.

In addition to all of this, he built high places in the mountains of Judah, led the inhabitants of Jerusalem into cultic sexual immorality, and made Judah go astray.

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

and established high places in every city of Judah where incense was burned to other gods, thus provoking the LORD God of his ancestors to anger.

At the conclusion of all of these activities, everybody in Israel who was in attendance traveled throughout the cities of Judah, broke down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and altars throughout the territories of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh until they had eliminated all of them. Then the people of Israel went back to their cities and back to their work.

Isn't this the very same Hezekiah who removed this god's high places and altars? Isn't this the same Hezekiah who issued this order to Judah and Jerusalem: "You are to worship in front of only one altar and burn your sacrifices only on it."?

He re-established the high places that his father Hezekiah had demolished, he built altars to the Baals, erected Asherim, and worshipped and served the armies of heaven.

Even so, the people continued to sacrifice in the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

His prayer, how God was moved by him, all of his sin and unfaithfulness, and a record of the sites where he constructed high places, erected Asherim and carved images before he humbled himself are written in the Acts of the Seers.

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In the twelfth year of his reign, he began to remove the high places, Asherim, carved images, and cast images from Judah and Jerusalem.

They tore down the altars of Baals in his presence. He chopped down the incense altars that stood high above them. He broke into pieces the Asherim, the carved images, and the cast images, ground them to dust, and scattered the residue on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

They approached Hilkiah the high priest and delivered to him the money that had been brought into God's Temple that the descendants of Levi and gatekeepers had collected from Manasseh, Ephraim, the surviving Israelis, Judah, Benjamin, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

"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.

Whoever would not come within three days would forfeit his assets and be separated from the community of the returning exiles, just as the high officials and elders had advised.

So Eliashib the high priest came forward, along with his fellow priests, and reconstructed the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and installed its doors. They also consecrated the wall as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel.

Next to him Zabbai's son Baruch worked valiantly on another section from the angle of the wall as far as the door to the house belonging to Eliashib the high priest.

One of the sons of Eliashib the high priest's son Joiada was a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite, so I drove him away from me.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said, "Have a pole made 50 cubits high, and then in the morning speak to the king and have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go with the king to the banquet happy." This advice pleased Haman, and he had the pole made.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, observed, "Look there! A pole is standing 50 cubits high at Haman's house that he prepared for Mordecai, whose report benefitted the king!"

Now as to all the powerful and great deeds of Ahasuerus, along with an exact statement about the high position of Mordecai to which the king promoted him, these things are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia, are they not?

He sets the lowly on high, and lifts those who mourn to safety.

Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven, my Advocate is on high.

"Dominion and fear belong to God; who fashions peace in his high heaven.

What would I have from God above, what heritage from the Almighty on high,

Does the eagle soar high at your command and build its nest on the highest crags?

He looks down on everything that is high; he rules over every kind of pride."

Let the assembly of the nations gather around you, and you will sit high above them.

But as for me, I will praise the LORD for his righteousness, and I will sing to the name of the LORD Most High. To the Director: On a stringed instrument. A Davidic Psalm.

I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praises to your name, Most High!

Their ways always seem prosperous. Your judgments are on high, far away from them. They scoff at all their enemies.

The LORD is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, my God, my stronghold in whom I take refuge, my shield, the glory of my salvation, and my high tower."

Then the LORD thundered in the heavens, and the Most High sounded aloud, calling for hail stones and flashes of fire.

who makes my feet swift as the deer; who makes me stand on high places;

The king trusts in the LORD; because of the gracious love of the Most High, he will stand firm.

For he will conceal me in his shelter on the day of evil; He will hide me in a secluded chamber within his tent; He will place me on a high rock.

Look! There is a river whose streams make the city of God rejoice, even the Holy Place of the Most High.

For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.

God has ascended on high with a shout, the LORD has ascended with the blast of a trumpet.

Offer to God a thanksgiving praise; pay your vows to the Most High.

I call upon the God Most High; to the God who completes what he began in me.

From the end of the earth I will cry to you whenever my heart is overwhelmed. Place me on the rock that's too high for me.

He alone is my rock, my deliverance, and my high tower; nothing will shake me.

He alone is my rock, my deliverance, and my high tower; nothing will shake me.

Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.

As for me, I am afflicted and hurting; may your deliverance, God, establish me on high.

Then they say, "How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?"

So I say: "It causes me pain that the right hand of the Most High has changed."

But time and again, they sinned against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

Then they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God was their deliverer.

But they tested the Most High God by rebelling against him, and they did not obey his statutes.

they angered him with their high places and with their carved images they made him jealous.

He built his sanctuary, high as the heavens, like the earth that he established forever.

"Indeed I said, "You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High.

Then they will know that you alone whose name is LORD are the Most High over all the earth. To the Director: On the Gittith. A Psalm by the descendants of Korah.

Indeed, about Zion it will be said: "More than one person was born in it," and "The Most High himself did it."

The one who lives in the shelter of the Most High, who rests in the shadow of the Almighty,

"LORD, you are my refuge!" Because you chose the Most High as your dwelling place,

It is good to give thanks to the LORD and to sing praise to your name, Most High;

More than the sound of surging waters the majestic waves of the sea the LORD on high is majestic.

For you, LORD, are the Most High above all the earth; you are exalted high above all divine beings.

As high as heaven rises above earth, so his gracious love strengthens those who fear him.

The high mountains are for wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for the rock badger.

because they had rebelled against the command of God, despising the advice of the Most High.

He will drink from a stream on the way, then hold his head high.

The LORD is exalted high above all the nations; his glory beyond the heavens.

Who is like the LORD our God, enthroned on high,

Reach down your hand from your high place; rescue me and deliver me from mighty waters, from the control of foreigners.

Let high praises to God be heard in their throats, while they wield two-edged swords in their hands

She sits at the entrance of her house, on a seat high above the city.

The person who loves transgression loves strife; the person who builds a high gate invites destruction.

The wealth of a rich person is his fortified city; in his own imagination, it is like a high wall.

Just as the heavens are high and earth is deep, so the heart of a king is unfathomable.

The way an eagle flies in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a young woman.

Don't be surprised when you see the poor oppressed and the violent perverting both justice and verdicts in a province, for one high official watches another, and there are ones higher still over them.

against all the high mountains, and against all the lofty hills;

against every high tower, and against every fortified wall;

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon his throne, high and exalted. The train of his robe filled the Temple.

"Ask a sign from the LORD your God. Make it as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven above."

I'll ascend above the tops of the clouds; I'll make myself like the Most High.'

He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. His head is completely bald, and every beard is shaved off.

"Give us advice; reach a decision! Cast your shadow as if night had come at high noon. Shelter the fugitives, And don't betray a single refugee.

When Moab appears, when he arrives upon the high place and comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail."

He brings down the high fortifications of your walls and lays them low; he will raze them to the ground, right down to the dust.

therefore, for you this sin will become like a breach in a high wall that is about to collapse, bulging out, and whose crash comes suddenly in an instant.

And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks and canals running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

until the Spirit from on high is poured upon us, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest."

"The LORD is exalted, for he lives on high; he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

But if you all say to me, "We are depending on the LORD our God" - isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, while he kept on telling Judah and Jerusalem, "You are to worship in front of this altar in Jerusalem'?

"Climb up a high mountain, you messenger of good news to Zion! Lift up your voice with strength, you messenger to Jerusalem! Lift it up! Don't be afraid! Say to the towns of Judah, "Here is your God!'

"Look! My servant will prosper, and he will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.