High Places

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• 1 Kings 12:32 OT

  Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the…

• 1 Kings 13:33 OT

  After this thing Jeroboam didn’t return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.

• 2 Kings 12:3 OT

  However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

• 2 Kings 16:4 OT

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

• Numbers 23:3 OT

  Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.

• Numbers 24:1 OT

  When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

• Numbers 33:52 OT

  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.

• Ezekiel 16:24 OT

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

• Ezekiel 16:31 OT

  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 16:23-35 OT

  “ ‘ “It has happened after all your wickedness. Woe, woe to you!” says the Lord Yahweh, “that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street. You have built your lofty place at the…

• 1 Kings 14:22 OT

  Judah did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

• Psalms 78:58 OT

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

• Leviticus 26:30 OT

  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.

• 2 Kings 17:11 OT

  and there they burned incense in all the high places, as the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them did; and they did wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;

• 2 Kings 17:18 OT

  Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

• 2 Chronicles 14:3 OT

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

• 2 Chronicles 14:5 OT

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

• 2 Chronicles 15:17 OT

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

• 2 Chronicles 17:6 OT

  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 Kings 18:4 OT

  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 Chronicles 31:1 OT

  Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in…

• 2 Kings 23:8 OT

  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…

• 2 Chronicles 34:3 OT

  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, the Asherah poles, the engraved images,…

• 2 Kings 14:4 OT

  However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.