Bible Thesaurus: High Places

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High Places

The ancient Canaanites, and other nations, worshipped the heavenly bodies and their idols upon hills, mountains, and artificial elevations. The Israelites were commanded to destroy these places of idol worship, De 12:2, but instead of this, they imitated the heathen, and at first worshipped Jehovah in high places, 1 Samuel 9:12 1 Kings 3:4, and afterwards idols, 1 Kings 11:7 2 Kings 17:10,11. Here also they built chapels or temples, "houses of the high places," 1 Kings 13:32 2 Kings 17:29, and had regular priests, 1 Kings 12:32 2 Kings 17:32. Different groves were sacred to different gods; and the high places were inseparably linked to idolatry. Hence one reason why Jehovah required the festivals and sacrifices of the Jews to be centered at his temple in Jerusalem; that the people of the living and only true God might be delivered from the temptations of the groves, and witness as one man against idolatry. The prophets reproach the Israelites for worshipping on the high places; the destroying of which was a duty, but the honor of performing it is given to few princes in Scripture, though several of them were zealous for the law. Before the temple was built, the high places were not absolutely contrary to the law, provided God only was adored there. Under the judges, they seem to have been tolerated in some exceptional cases; and Samuel offered sacrifice in several places where the ark was not present. Even in David's time, the people sacrificed to the Lord at Shiloh, Jerusalem, and Gibeon. The high places were much frequented in the kingdom of Israel; and on these hills they often adored idols, and committed a thousand abominations. See BAMOTH and GROVES.

Strong's Hebrew

1181. baale bamoth -- lords of (the) high places
... lords of (the) high places. Transliteration: baale bamoth Phonetic Spelling:
(bah-al-ay' baw-moth') Short Definition: heights. ... lords of the high places. ...
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1116. bamah -- a high place
... Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition a high place NASB Word Usage heights
(3), high place (19), high places (76), places (1), waves (1). ...
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7413. ramah -- height, high place
... place. Word Origin from rum Definition height, high place NASB Word Usage
height (1), high place (3), high places (1). high place. ...
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4791. marom -- height
... Word Usage above* (1), exalted (1), exalted places (1), haughtily (2), heaven (1),
heavens (1), height (4), heights (9), high (28), high places (2), loftiness ...
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1921. hadar -- to honor, adorn, perhaps to swell
... 1), defer* (1), honor (1), majestic (1), partial (1), respected (1), rough places
(1). ... active or passive); by implication, to favor or honour, be high or proud ...
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Library

Spiritual Religion in High Places --Rous, Vane, and Sterry
... CHAPTER XIV SPIRITUAL RELIGION IN HIGH PLACES"ROUS, VANE, AND STERRY. The
spiritual struggles which culminated in the great upheaval ...
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Asa's Reformation, and Consequent Peace and victory
... the Lord his God; 3. For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high
places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: 4. And commanded ...
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Prayer and Humility
... gaze. It does not seek publicity nor hunt for high places, neither does
it care for prominence. Humility is retiring in its nature. ...
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The Earlier Hebrew Histories.
... "Samuel," says Professor Robertson Smith, "sacrifices on many high places, Saul
builds altars, David and his son Solomon permit the worship at the high places ...
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Feeding in the Ways
... FEEDING IN THE WAYS. 'They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in
all high places.' Isaiah 49:9. ... 'Their pasture shall be in all high places.'. ...
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Jehoshaphat's Reform
... riches and honour in abundance.6. And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the
Lord: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.7. Also in ...
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Twenty-First Sunday after Trinity. Be Strong in the Lord
... flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. ...
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Political Religion
... 31. 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.32. And ...
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A Soul's Tragedy
... borne. There are few men, holding high places in any walk of life, who could
have stood such a comparison without wincing. Suppose ...
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A Kingdom's Epitaph
... they had made.9. 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 ...
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