24 occurrences

'High' in the Bible

Solomon and the whole assembly with him went to the high place that was in Gibeon because God’s tent of meeting, which the Lord’s servant Moses had made in the wilderness, was there.

Verse ConceptsAccess To God, In Old TestamentServanthood, In Life Of BelieversTent Of Meeting

So Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place that was in Gibeon in front of the tent of meeting, and he reigned over Israel.

Verse ConceptsShrines

In front of the temple he made two pillars, each 27 feet high. The capital on top of each was 7½ feet high.

Verse ConceptsTwo Parts Of Constructions

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

For Solomon had made a bronze platform 7½ feet long, 7½ feet wide, and 4½ feet high and put it in the court. He stood on it, knelt down in front of the entire congregation of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.

Verse ConceptsKneelingPrayer, Practicalities OfBronze Items For The Tabernacle

Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places, the goat-demons, and the golden calves he had made.

Verse ConceptsCalvesShrinesGolden CalvesThirty

He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom experienced peace under him.

The high places were not taken away from Israel; nevertheless, Asa was wholehearted his entire life.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodReformationSacrifice, In OtGrandmothers

His mind rejoiced in the Lord’s ways, and he again removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

Verse ConceptsDesires For HolinessHigh PlacesLoyaltyShrinesRenewed Heart

However, the high places were not taken away; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.

Verse ConceptsComplacencyHalf Heartedness

Jehoram also built high places in the hills of Judah, and he caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, and he led Judah astray.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sSpiritual Harlotry

So the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said, “Why haven’t you required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by the Lord’s servant Moses and the assembly of Israel for the tent of the testimony?

Verse ConceptsChief priestsMoses, Significance OfTax Collectors

Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king’s overseers, and when they saw that there was a large amount of money, the king’s secretary and the high priest’s deputy came and emptied the chest, picked it up, and returned it to its place. They did this daily and gathered the money in abundance.

Verse ConceptsOfficersScribesSecretary

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

Verse ConceptsShrines

He made high places in every city of Judah to offer incense to other gods, and he provoked the Lord, the God of his ancestors.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesProvoking GodShrinesTown

When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, to the last one. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionHigh PlacesLeaders, PoliticalReformationSacrifice, In OtStonesAnnihilationDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

Didn’t Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before one altar, and you must burn incense on it”?

Verse ConceptsHigh Places

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down and reestablished the altars for the Baals. He made Asherah poles, and he worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them.

Verse ConceptsBuilding Altars

However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.

Verse ConceptsShrines

His prayer and how God granted his request, and all his sin and unfaithfulness and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and carved images before he humbled himself, they are written in the Records of Hozai.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PrayerUnfaithfulness, To God

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good Examples OfPurgingYouthful Devotionteenager

So they went to Hilkiah the high priest, and gave him the money brought into God’s temple. The Levites and the doorkeepers had collected money from Manasseh, Ephraim, and from the entire remnant of Israel, and from all Judah, Benjamin, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsRemnantSamaritans

Bible Theasaurus

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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