'High' in the Bible

His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.

Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, and led Judah astray.

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

In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of his fathers.

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

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

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

Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.

His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

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 Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.

They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them.

They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, 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.

Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up its doors; even to the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel.

After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning [of the wall] to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, "Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman's house." The king said, "Hang him on it!"

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

"Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

"Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider.

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride."

Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them on high.

I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High. For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David.

I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high places.

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.

There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.

both low and high, rich and poor together.

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant." A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff neck."

Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High."

Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;

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

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

that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth. For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.

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

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,

"Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High;

But you, Yahweh, are on high forevermore.

Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.

Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples.

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

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

Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge; who subdues my people under me.

May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand;

On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.

For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan,

For all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up,

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!"

They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.

It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.

What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?' Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!"

It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

It shall happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.

He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.