Bible Dictionary: High Places: A Term Used to Describe Places of Worship

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Genesis 12:8
And he removed from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he built an altar to the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD.
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Genesis 22:2,14
And he said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and get you into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.
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Genesis 31:54
Then Jacob offered sacrifice on the mount, and called his brothers to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
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1 Samuel 9:12
And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:
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2 Samuel 24:25
And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
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1 Kings 3:2,4
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built to the name of the LORD, until those days.
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1 Kings 18:30,38
And Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me. And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.
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1 Chronicles 16:39
And Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,
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2 Chronicles 1:3
So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
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2 Chronicles 33:17
Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet to the LORD their God only.
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Library

The Earliest Chapters in Divine Revelation
... Thus it was a supremely appropriate term to describe the ... In some places it was the
moon god Sin, as at ... and orphans, this code marks almost as high a stage in ...
/.../iii the earliest chapters in.htm

The Fear which Terminates in the Second Death.
... Fearful, is a term seldom used to describe sinners ... declared the merciful design of
the Most High, in their ... they must keep respectively, in their places, and act ...
/.../lee/sermons on various important subjects/sermon xx the fear which.htm

And ii.
... That the [Pg 431] five places, the mention of which ... character to particularize, than
to use a general term. ... On the high mountains of Israel I will plant it ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/chap i and ii.htm

Synagogues: their Origin, Structure and Outward Arrangements
... of the "basilica," but the very term "bema," is ... knew the thoughts of the Most High!"
Another direction ... were the so-called "oratories" or "places where prayer ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 16 synagogues their origin.htm

Manner of Covenanting.
... into idolatry by offering sacrifice on high places, made a ... The term ([Greek: euche])
by which the Seventy render ... in the Old Testament original, is used in the ...
/.../cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/chapter ii manner of covenanting.htm

Christian Perfection
... Indeed, it is only another term for holiness ... shall know that I the Lord build the
ruined places; " I the ... toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 40 christian perfection.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... Their high cheek-bones stand out from their hollow ... the walls of the Pylons, and in
places where the ... inhabitants of these countries used this term by preference ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

The Apocalypse of Baruch.
... The term "Baruch," in Pseudo-Athanasius' Synopsis, and in the ... for they shall dwell
in the high places of that ... they should stay in their own places till the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/deane/pseudepigrapha/the apocalypse of baruch.htm

At Gerasa - the Healing of the Demonised.
... mental and moral (which some might term an aspect of ... in accordance with his preconceived
notions, to select such places. ... Thou Son of the Most High God?' Christ ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxv at gerasa -.htm

That the Scriptures are Divinely Inspired.
... sacerdotal fillets and robes of the high priests, were ... not boast; for such is the
term used by the ... Christ's apostles throughout the different places, in which ...
/.../origen/origen de principiis/chapter i that the scriptures are.htm

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