22 occurrences

'High' in the Bible

In front of the temple he made two pillars which had a combined length of 52? feet, with each having a plated capital seven and one-half feet high.

Verse ConceptsTwo Parts Of Constructions

He also made the big bronze basin called "The Sea." It measured 15 feet from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven and one-half feet high. Its circumference was 45 feet.

Solomon had made a bronze platform and had placed it in the middle of the enclosure. It was seven and one-half feet long, seven and one-half feet wide, and four and one-half feet high. He stood on it and then got down on his knees in front of the entire assembly of Israel. He spread out his hands toward the sky,

Verse ConceptsKneelingPrayer, Practicalities OfBronze Items For The Tabernacle

He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

He removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. The kingdom had rest under his rule.

The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodReformationSacrifice, In OtGrandmothers

He was committed to following the Lord; he even removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

Verse ConceptsDesires For HolinessHigh PlacesLoyaltyShrinesRenewed Heart

Now the king of Syria had ordered his chariot commanders, "Do not fight common soldiers or high ranking officers; fight only the king of Israel!"

Verse ConceptsSmallness

However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors.

Verse ConceptsComplacencyHalf Heartedness

He also built high places on the hills of Judah; he encouraged the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the Lord and led Judah away from the Lord.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sSpiritual Harlotry

Whenever the Levites brought the chest to the royal accountant and they saw there was a lot of silver, the royal scribe and the accountant of the high priest emptied the chest and then took it back to its place. They went through this routine every day and collected a large amount of silver.

Verse ConceptsOfficersScribesSecretary

When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king himself wanted to leave quickly because the Lord had afflicted him.

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

Verse ConceptsShrines

In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifices to other gods. He angered the Lord God of his ancestors.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesProvoking GodShrinesTown

When all this was over, the Israelites who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities.

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

Hezekiah is the one who eliminated the Lord's high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, "At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices."

Verse ConceptsHigh Places

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.

Verse ConceptsBuilding Altars

The people continued to offer sacrifices at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

Verse ConceptsShrines

The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the Lord responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PrayerUnfaithfulness, To God

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year he began ridding Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good Examples OfPurgingYouthful Devotionteenager

They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the silver that had been brought to God's temple. The Levites who guarded the door had collected it from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim and from all who were left in Israel, as well as from all the people of Judah and Benjamin and the residents of Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsRemnantSamaritans

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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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