'High' in the Bible

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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”?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

And I said:My God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face toward You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads and our guilt is as high as the heavens.

Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building the wall to the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated it.

After him Baruch son of Zabbai diligently repaired another section, from the Angle to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform made for this purpose. Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah stood beside him on his right; to his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hash-baddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. So I drove him away from me.

Then Haman described for them his glorious wealth and his many sons. He told them all how the king had honored him and promoted him in rank over the other officials and the royal staff.

His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows 75 feet high. Ask the king in the morning to hang Mordecai on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.

He sets the lowly on high,and mourners are lifted to safety.

then you will hold your head high, free from fault.You will be firmly established and unafraid.

Isn’t God as high as the heavens?And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!

For what portion would I have from God above,or what inheritance from the Almighty on high?

Look at the heavens and see;gaze at the clouds high above you.

Does the eagle soar at your commandand make its nest on high?

Let the assembly of peoples gather around You;take Your seat on high over it.

I will thank the Lord for His righteousness;I will sing about the name of Yahweh the Most High.

I will rejoice and boast about You;I will sing about Your name, Most High.

The Lord thundered from heaven;the Most High projected His voice.

He reached down from heavenand took hold of me;He pulled me out of deep waters.

For the king relies on the Lord;through the faithful love of the Most Highhe is not shaken.

For He will conceal me in His shelterin the day of adversity;He will hide me under the cover of His tent;He will set me high on a rock.

Then my head will be highabove my enemies around me;I will offer sacrifices in His tent with shouts of joy.I will sing and make music to the Lord.

There is a river—its streams delight the city of God,the holy dwelling place of the Most High.

For Yahweh, the Most High, is awe-inspiring,a great King over all the earth.

both low and high,rich and poor together.

On high, He summons heaven and earthin order to judge His people.

Sacrifice a thank offering to God,and pay your vows to the Most High.

I call to God Most High,to God who fulfills His purpose for me.

For Your faithful love is as high as the heavens;Your faithfulness reaches the clouds.

I call to You from the ends of the earthwhen my heart is without strength.Lead me to a rock that is high above me,

They only plan to bring him downfrom his high position.They take pleasure in lying;they bless with their mouths,but they curse inwardly.Selah

The wicked say, “How can God know?Does the Most High know everything?”

So I say, “I am grievedthat the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

But they continued to sin against Him,rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

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

But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,for they did not keep His decrees.

They enraged Him with their high placesand provoked His jealousy with their carved images.

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

May they know that You alone—whose name is Yahweh—are the Most High over all the earth.

And it will be said of Zion,“This one and that one were born in her.”The Most High Himself will establish her.

You have a mighty arm;Your hand is powerful;Your right hand is lifted high.

You have lifted high the right hand of his foes;You have made all his enemies rejoice.

The one who lives under the protection of the Most Highdwells in the shadow of the Almighty.

Because you have made the Lord—my refuge,the Most High—your dwelling place,

A psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.It is good to praise Yahweh,to sing praise to Your name, Most High,

Greater than the roar of many waters—the mighty breakers of the sea—the Lord on high is majestic.

For You, Lord,are the Most High over all the earth;You are exalted above all the gods.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth,so great is His faithful lovetoward those who fear Him.

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

because they rebelled against God’s commandsand despised the counsel of the Most High.

Who is like Yahweh our God—the One enthroned on high,

Reach down from heaven;rescue me from deep water, and set me freefrom the grasp of foreigners

Then you will find favor and high regardin the sight of God and man.

One who loves to offend loves strife;one who builds a high threshold invites injury.

A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city;in his imagination it is like a high wall.

As the heaven is high and the earth is deep,so the hearts of kings cannot be investigated.

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

against every high tower,against every fortified wall,

The Lord also says:Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,walking with heads held highand seductive eyes,going along with prancing steps,jingling their ankle bracelets,

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and His robe filled the temple.

Look, the Lord God of Hostswill chop off the branches with terrifying power,and the tall trees will be cut down,the high trees felled.

I will ascend above the highest clouds;I will make myself like the Most High.”

Dibon went up to its templeto weep at its high places.Moab wails on Nebo and at Medeba.Every head is shaved;every beard is cut off.

When Moab appears on the high place,when he tires himself outand comes to his sanctuary to pray,it will do him no good.

The high-walled fortress will be brought down,thrown to the ground, to the dust.

this iniquity of yours will belike a spreading breach,a bulge in a high wallwhose collapse will come in an instant—suddenly!

Streams flowing with water will be on every high mountain and every raised hill on the day of great slaughter when the towers fall.

The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high;He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

Suppose you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God.’ Isn’t He the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You are to worship at this altar’?

Zion, herald of good news,go up on a high mountain.Jerusalem, herald of good news,raise your voice loudly.Raise it, do not be afraid!Say to the cities of Judah,“Here is your God!”

You have placed your bedon a high and lofty mountain;you also went up there to offer sacrifice.

For the High and Exalted Onewho lives forever, whose name is Holy says this:“I live in a high and holy place,and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit,to revive the spirit of the lowlyand revive the heart of the oppressed.

You fast with contention and strifeto strike viciously with your fist.You cannot fast as you do today,hoping to make your voice heard on high.

For long ago I broke your yoke;I tore off your chains.You insisted, “I will not serve!”On every high hilland under every green treeyou lie down like a prostitute.

In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, “Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.

They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire, a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought.

while their children remember their altarsand their Asherah poles, by the green treeson the high hills—

My mountains in the countryside.I will give up your wealthand all your treasures as plunderbecause of the sin of your high placesin all your borders.

A throne of gloryon high from the beginningis the place of our sanctuary.

They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, something I have never commanded or mentioned; I never entertained the thought.

“As for you, you are to prophesy all these things to them, and say to them:The Lord roars from heaven;He raises His voice from His holy dwelling.He roars loudly over His grazing land;He calls out with a shout, like those who tread grapes,against all the inhabitants of the earth.

They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I had not commanded them. I had never entertained the thought that they do this detestable act causing Judah to sin!

In Moab, I will stop”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“the one who offers sacrifices on the high place and burns incense to his gods.

This is what Yahweh of Hosts says:Babylon’s thick walls will be totally demolished,and her high gates consumed by fire.The peoples will have labored for nothing;the nations will exhaust themselves only to feed the fire.

and had a bronze capital on top of it. One capital, encircled by bronze latticework and pomegranates, stood 7½ feet high. The second pillar was the same, with pomegranates.

מ MemHe sent fire from heaven into my bones;He made it descend.He spread a net for my feetand turned me back.He made me desolate,sick all day long.

denying justice to a manin the presence of the Most High,

Do not both adversity and goodcome from the mouth of the Most High?