'Places' in the Bible

And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house which he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy to which the ark of Jehovah has come.

and he ordained for himself priests for the high places, and for the he-goats and for the calves that he had made.

and he took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs;

And he removed out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.

But the high places were not removed from Israel; only, Asa's heart was perfect all his days.

And he took courage in the ways of Jehovah; moreover, he removed the high places and Asherahs out of Judah.

Only, the high places were not removed; and as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

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

And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

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.