35 occurrences in 13 translations

'High' in the Bible

Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

Verse ConceptsSacrificing On The High Places

And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered AmissThose Loving GodSacrificing On The High Places

And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanOfferingsPilgrimageSacrifice, In OtA Thousand AnimalsSacrifice On The Bronze Altar

These were his [chief] officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the high priest;

By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsBuildingHousesFoundations Of Buildings

The temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

Verse ConceptsBreadthBuildingHeightDimensions Of Buildingsfreemasonry

And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

Verse ConceptsHeightDecksDimensions Of ChambersCedar Woodstructure

The interior of the sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high; he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the cedar altar.

Verse ConceptsCubesDimensions Of ChambersOverlaid With WoodCedar Wood

Each cherub was ten cubits high, and both were of the same size and shape,

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureSame Sizes

He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. It was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on top of the pillars.

Verse ConceptsBeamsForestsBreadthBuildingFour SupportsRoyal HousesDimensions Of BuildingsCedar Wood

Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

Verse ConceptsCedarJudgment SeatThroneHallsOverlaid With WoodPeople Involved In JudgementCedar Wood

For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveDimensions Of PillarsHollownessTwo Parts Of ConstructionsHollowBronze Items For The Tabernacle

He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of PillarsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

And the capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, six feet high.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Pillars

He made the cast metal reservoir, 15 feet from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was 7½ feet high and 45 feet in circumference.

Verse ConceptsSculptureWeights And Measures, DistancesDimensions Of Temple FurnitureCircles

Then he made 10 bronze water carts. Each water cart was six feet long, six feet wide, and 4½ feet high.

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureBronze Items For The Tabernacle

The four wheels were placed underneath the borders, and the axles for the wheels were on the stand. Each wheel stood one and a half cubits high.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of The TempleWhy Does God Do This?

Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsBuild, LiterallyHigh Places

He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered AmissServing One's Own Gods

And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesPriests, Institution In Ot Times

And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

Verse ConceptsNew Year, TheMonth 8the anniversary Feasts

And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsSanctity Of LifeBirths ForetoldDuplicating WordsBonesBurning Idolatrous ThingsMan Of God

For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

Verse ConceptsShrinesMan's Words Fulfilled

After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesSuperstitionConsecration

Go, say to Jeroboam, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Because that I have made thee high out of the midst of the people, and appoint thee leader over my people Israel,

Verse ConceptsHumilityPromotionGod Lifting People

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

Verse ConceptsHillsSacred PlacesPolytheismObelisksServing Asherah

But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodHeart, And Holy SpiritHigh PlacesReformationWhole Heartedness

And it cometh to pass, at Zimri's seeing that the city hath been captured, that he cometh in unto a high place of the house of the king, and burneth over him the house of the king with fire, and dieth,

Verse ConceptsCitadelsHope, Results Of Its AbsencePalacesSuicideBurning People

And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfFastingFasting And Prayerjezebel

They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

Verse ConceptsHeraldjezebel

And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

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

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Decayed (8 instances)
Elevated (27 instances)
Elevated (27 instances)
Eminent (11 instances)
Exalted (162 instances)
Gigantic (4 instances)
Handsome (22 instances)
Heights (83 instances)
Highest (77 instances)
Lofty (52 instances)
Luxuriously (10 instances)
Richly (24 instances)

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