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On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze capital atop one pillar was three cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its network, was similar.

And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon

For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,

And Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

So Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place in Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, and he reigned over Israel.

The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits.

He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,

And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.

He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.

He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.

The high places were not removed from Israel, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted all his days.

And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their fathers.

Jehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.

So the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the Tent of the Testimony?”

Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king’s overseers and they saw that there was a large amount of money, the royal scribe and the officer of the high priest would come and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. They did this daily and gathered the money in abundance.

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

In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers.

When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.

Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.

So they went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites who guarded the doors had collected from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and from the people of Jerusalem.

In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,

At the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated the wall.

Next to him, Baruch son of Zabbai diligently repaired another section, from the angle to the doorway of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform built for this occasion. At his right side stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, and at his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hash-baddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.

He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?

Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?

…this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?

Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.

I will thank the LORD for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded—hailstones and coals of fire.

He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.

For the king trusts in the LORD; through the loving devotion of the Most High, he will not be shaken.

For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.

Then my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.

There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth!

…both low and high, rich and poor alike.

Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.

I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.

You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”

So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

I have said, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.’

May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.

And it will be said of Zion: “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High Himself will establish her.”

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

Because you have made the LORD your dwelling—my refuge, the Most High—

A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,

Above the roar of many waters—the mighty breakers of the sea—the LORD on high is majestic.

For You, O LORD, are Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.

The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.

…because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.

He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.

Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high?

Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.

Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,

May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a double-edged sword in their hands,

Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.

He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his gate high invites destruction.

A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.

You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:

Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.

As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings cannot be searched.

The fear of man is a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is set securely on high.

…against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,

…against every high tower, against every fortified wall,

The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.

I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.

When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.

For He has humbled those who dwell on high; He lays the lofty city low. He brings it down to the ground; He casts it into the dust.

…this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!

And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.

…until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.

The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?