181 occurrences

'Places' in the Bible

And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,

Verse ConceptsRulers Of Edom

An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

Verse ConceptsOxenFellowship OfferingAltars, Made OfBurnt offeringSheepShrinesReminders Of GodProclaiming God’s NameGod Will BlessRegulating SacrificesSacrificesPeace offerings

Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.

Verse ConceptsCarrying Holy ThingsEdge Of Other Things

And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With Gold

And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.

Verse ConceptsRingsAltar Of IncenseCarrying Holy ThingsGold Items For The Tabernacl

And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With GoldGold Items For The Tabernacl

Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.

Verse ConceptsEdge Of Other Things

And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.

Verse ConceptsRingsAltar Of IncenseCarrying Holy ThingsGold Items For The Tabernacl

And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.

Verse ConceptsFour Supports

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesDestruction Of Satan's WorksInadequate BurialsNo IncenseFate Of IdolatersGod Hating People

For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

Verse ConceptsBurning CitiesArnon

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyBaal Worship, HistorySeeing People

Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesGoldsmithsDestruction Of Satan's Works

Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsSeashoresRiver EuphratesAs Far As The EuphratesThe ShephelahMoving To A New Place

Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenHigh PlacesHillsDestruction Of Satan's WorksWorship At Trees

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalFoodFlintHigh PlacesOilHoneyProvision From RocksProvision Of Oil

Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessHigh PlacesRefugeShieldsSpiritual Warfare, ArmourSwordsGod Being Our ShieldUnique IsraelGod HelpsGod's SwordExcellence

And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.

Verse ConceptsHope And Healing

They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfVoicesStanding In The Gateway

Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.

Verse ConceptsCourage, Examples OfLife DespisedRisking

And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.

Verse ConceptsStaying Temporarily

And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.

And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

Verse ConceptsCirclesEvery Year

When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

Verse ConceptsCavesRocksPeople In CavesHiding From PeopleCaves As Places Of Refuge

See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.

Verse ConceptsHuntingHiding From People

And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

Verse ConceptsPeople StumblingDrawbacks To Man's Power

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

Verse ConceptsPeople StumblingDrawbacks To Man's PowerKilling Named Individuals

In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

Verse ConceptsCedarShepherds, As Kings And LeadersCedar Wood

He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.

Verse ConceptsFeetDeersHigh PlacesTypes Of FeetDeer Etc.Deer

Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.

Verse ConceptsForeignersGroups Tremblingcrusades

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 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

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 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

But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

Verse ConceptsShrinesIncense Offered Amiss

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered Amiss

Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered Amiss

Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsSolomon's TempleGateways Of The TempleIncense Offered Amiss

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

Verse ConceptsSacrifice, In OtShrinesIncense Offered AmissSacrificing On The High PlacesWorship At Trees

And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

Verse ConceptsSecrecySecret SinsConcealment, Of SinActing In Secret

And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesGod's Intolerance Of EvilProvoking GodIncense Offered AmissSacrificing On The High Places

Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

Verse ConceptsSacrificing On The High Placesgroups

So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Fearing God

He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionHigh PlacesLeaders, PoliticalReformationShrinesThe Bronze SnakeSnakesStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksAbandoning IdolsBronze For IdolsMemorabilia

But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

Verse ConceptsShrines

I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

Verse ConceptsdrynessPeople Drying Things UpFeet In ActionFailing Rivers

For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsFalse ReligionBowingAltars, PaganBuilding AltarsList Of Kings Of IsraelServing Asherah

And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

Verse ConceptsConstellationsHigh PlacesMoonPriests, Institution In Ot TimesShrinesIncense Offered AmissIdolatrous Worship Of The Moon

And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

Verse ConceptsGatesGovernorsHigh Places

Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

Verse ConceptsThe Altar Of The Lord

And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsFalse GodsHillsAbominations, Idolatry IsPolluting The LandServing Asherah

And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

Verse ConceptsStonesObelisksBones

And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

Verse ConceptsSamaritansreuniting

And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsCremationHigh PlacesKilling PriestsBones

And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that 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, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.

Verse ConceptsPalaces

And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

Verse ConceptsCalvesShrinesGolden CalvesThirty

For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodReformationSacrifice, In OtGrandmothers

And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

Verse ConceptsDesires For HolinessHigh PlacesLoyaltyShrinesRenewed Heart

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

Verse ConceptsComplacencyHalf Heartedness

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

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sSpiritual Harlotry

He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Verse ConceptsShrines

And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesProvoking GodShrinesTown

Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

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

Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

Verse ConceptsHigh Places

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

Verse ConceptsBuilding Altars

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.

Verse ConceptsShrines

His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PrayerUnfaithfulness, To God

For 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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good Examples OfPurgingYouthful Devotionteenager

And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.

Verse ConceptsTen TimesGiving Informationvulnerability

Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Verse ConceptsFamily SolidaritySpearsProtecting Your Familyvulnerability

And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

Verse ConceptsBaby dedicationHarpsJoy, Of IsraelLyreMusicMusical Instruments, types ofOrchestrasCymbalsBuilding Jerusalem's Wall

With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

Verse ConceptsGod Is UnchangeableArchaeologyKings And PrideResolving Conflictimpossible

All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

Verse ConceptsBurning PeopleThe Outer DarknessOuter Darkness

Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

Verse ConceptsReverence, And God's NatureStabilitydominion

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

Verse ConceptsSecrecyWaitingWatchfulness, Of BelieversCharacter Of WickedHelplessnessLooking At People For EvilJudged As Murderersrehabilitation

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

Verse ConceptsBeautifulBoundariesHappinessHeritageInheritanceBeauty Of Naturealignment

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

Verse ConceptsHuntingLionsWicked Described AsPeople Torn To PiecesLike CreaturesGreed

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedSlipperyness

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthViolenceNations DescribedDarkness Of EvilGod Keeps Covenant

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Verse ConceptsAbhorGod, Suffering OfGod, Zeal OfGod, JealousGod Opposes Idolatry

In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

Verse ConceptsdepthHand Of GodMountainsAll Things Belong To GodThe EarthThe World

Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.

Verse ConceptsBless The Lord!dominion

He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

Verse ConceptsThirstGod Providing WaterProvision From Rocks

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

Verse ConceptsBeggingDestitutesBeggarsRestlessness

He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeChrist Judging

Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

Verse ConceptsGod, Purpose OfGod, Sovereignty OfStrength, DivineAuthority, Belonging To GodThe AlmightyDeterminism

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