HIGH PLACES

Passages on this topic · 48

• Genesis 12:8

  He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.

• Genesis 22:2

  He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

• Genesis 22:14

  Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”

• Genesis 31:54

  Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.

• Leviticus 26:30

  I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

• Numbers 22:41

  In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people.

• Numbers 33:52

  then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.

• 1 Samuel 9:12

  They answered them, and said, “He is. Behold, he is before you. Hurry now, for he has come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place.

• 2 Samuel 24:25

  David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

• 1 Kings 3:2

  However the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for Yahweh’s name.

• 1 Kings 3:4

  The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

• 1 Kings 11:7

  Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

• 1 Kings 12:31

  He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

• 1 Kings 14:23

  For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

• 1 Kings 15:14

  But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.

• 1 Kings 18:30

  Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me!”; and all the people came near to him. He repaired Yahweh’s altar that had been thrown down.

• 1 Kings 18:38

  Then Yahweh’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

• 1 Kings 22:43

  He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn aside from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

• 2 Kings 17:9

  The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against Yahweh their God; and they built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

• 2 Kings 17:29

  However 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 in which they lived.

• 2 Kings 18:4

  He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

• 2 Kings 23:8

  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 he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

• 1 Chronicles 16:39

  and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before Yahweh’s tabernacle in the high place that was at Gibeon,

• 2 Chronicles 1:3

  So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for God’s Tent of Meeting was there, which Yahweh’s servant Moses had made in the wilderness.

• 2 Chronicles 14:3

  for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles,

• 2 Chronicles 17:6

  His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 33:17

  Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.

• Jeremiah 7:31

  They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.

• Ezekiel 16:24

  “that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.

• Ezekiel 16:25

  You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.

• Ezekiel 16:26

  You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.

• Ezekiel 16:27

  See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your portion, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

• Ezekiel 16:28

  You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren’t satisfied.

• Ezekiel 16:29

  You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this.

• Ezekiel 16:30

  “‘“How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

• Ezekiel 16:31

  in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.

• Ezekiel 16:32

  “‘“A wife who commits adultery! Who takes strangers instead of her husband!

• Ezekiel 16:33

  People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

• Ezekiel 16:34

  You are different from other women in your prostitution, in that no one follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.”’

• Ezekiel 16:35

  “Therefore, prostitute, hear Yahweh’s word:

• Ezekiel 16:36

  ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;

• Ezekiel 16:37

  therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

• Ezekiel 16:38

  I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

• Ezekiel 16:39

  I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they will strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels. They will leave you naked and bare.

• Ezekiel 16:40

  They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

• Ezekiel 16:41

  They will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you will also give no hire any more.

• Ezekiel 16:42

  So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy will depart from you. I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

• Ezekiel 16:43

  “‘“Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.