Topic
High Places
58 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Leviticus 26:30Nave · Torrey The idolatrous, to be destroyed
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
- Numbers 22:41Nave · Torrey Signify a place of idolatrous worship
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.
- Numbers 33:52Nave · Torrey The idolatrous, to be destroyed
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
- 1 Samuel 9:12Nave · Torrey A term used to describe places of worship
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:
- 1 Kings 3:2Nave · Torrey A term used to describe places of worship
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
- 1 Kings 3:4Nave · Torrey A term used to describe places of worship
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
- 1 Kings 11:7Nave · Torrey Signify a place of idolatrous worship
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
- 1 Kings 12:31Nave · Torrey Signify a place of idolatrous worship
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.
- 1 Kings 14:23Nave · Torrey Signify a place of idolatrous worship
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
- 2 Kings 17:9Nave · Torrey Signify a place of idolatrous worship
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 their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
- 2 Kings 18:4Nave · Torrey Hezekiah destroys
¶ He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
- 2 Kings 23:8Nave · Torrey Josiah destroys
And 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 Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the…
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- 2 Chronicles 14:3 Nave · Torrey Asa destroys
- 2 Chronicles 17:6 Nave · Torrey Jehoshaphat destroys
- 2 Chronicles 33:17 Nave · Torrey A term used to describe places of worship
- Jeremiah 7:31 Nave · Torrey Signify a place of idolatrous worship
- Genesis 12:8 Nave A term used to describe places of worship
- Genesis 22:2 Nave A term used to describe places of worship
- Genesis 22:14 Nave A term used to describe places of worship
- Genesis 31:54 Nave A term used to describe places of worship
- Numbers 21:28 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Arnon
- Numbers 23:3 Torrey Enchantments used upon
- Numbers 24:1 Torrey Enchantments used upon
- 2 Samuel 24:25 Nave A term used to describe places of worship
- 1 Kings 11:8 Torrey Used for idolatrous worship
- 1 Kings 12:32 Torrey Priests ordained for
- 1 Kings 13:33 Torrey Priests ordained for
- 1 Kings 14:22 Torrey THE JEWS — Provoked God with
- 1 Kings 15:14 Nave Signify a place of idolatrous worship
- 1 Kings 18:30 Nave A term used to describe places of worship
- 1 Kings 18:38 Nave A term used to describe places of worship
- 1 Kings 22:43 Nave Signify a place of idolatrous worship
- 2 Kings 12:3 Torrey Sacrifices and incense offered to idols upon
- 2 Kings 14:4 Torrey NOT REMOVED — Amaziah
- 2 Kings 15:4 Torrey NOT REMOVED — Azariah
- 2 Kings 15:35 Torrey NOT REMOVED — Jotham
- 2 Kings 16:4 Torrey Sacrifices and incense offered to idols upon
- 2 Kings 17:11 Torrey THE JEWS — Punished for
- 2 Kings 17:18 Torrey THE JEWS — Punished for
- 2 Kings 17:29 Nave Signify a place of idolatrous worship
- 2 Kings 21:3 Torrey BUILT BY — Manasseh
- 1 Chronicles 16:39 Nave A term used to describe places of worship
- 2 Chronicles 1:3 Nave A term used to describe places of worship
- 2 Chronicles 14:5 Torrey DESTROYED — Asa, partially
- 2 Chronicles 15:17 Torrey DESTROYED — Asa, partially
- 2 Chronicles 21:11 Torrey BUILT BY — Jehoram
- 2 Chronicles 28:25 Torrey BUILT BY — Ahaz
- 2 Chronicles 31:1 Torrey DESTROYED — Hezekiah
- 2 Chronicles 33:3 Torrey BUILT BY — Manasseh
- 2 Chronicles 34:3 Torrey DESTROYED — Josiah
- Psalms 78:58 Torrey THE JEWS — Provoked God with
- Ezekiel 16:16 Torrey Adorned with tapestry
- Ezekiel 16:23–35 Torrey THE JEWS — Condemned for building
- Ezekiel 16:24–43 Nave Licentious practices at
- Ezekiel 16:24 Torrey THE JEWS — Built, in all their streets
- Ezekiel 16:31 Torrey THE JEWS — Built, in all their streets
- Ezekiel 20:29 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Bamah
- Hosea 10:8 Torrey MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE — Aven
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 29 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → A term used to describe places of worship Ge 12:8; 22:2,14; 31:54; 1Sa 9:12; 2Sa 24:25; 1Ki 3:2,4; 18:30,38; 1Ch 16:39; 2Ch 1:3; 33:17
- → Signify a place of idolatrous worship Nu 22:41; 1Ki 11:7; 12:31; 14:23; 15:14; 22:43; 2Ki 17:9,29; Jer 7:31
- → Licentious practices at Eze 16:24-43
- → The idolatrous, to be destroyed Le 26:30; Nu 33:52
- → Asa destroys 2Ch 14:3
- → Jehoshaphat destroys 2Ch 17:6
- → Hezekiah destroys 2Ki 18:4
- → Josiah destroys 2Ki 23:8
- → See GROVES
- → See IDOLATRY
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 51 references, grouped by sub-topic
- Used for idolatrous worship 1Ki 11:7,8
- God sometimes worshipped on 1Sa 9:12; 1Ki 3:2,4; 2Ch 33:17
- MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
- Adorned with tapestry Eze 16:16
- Surrounded with groves 1Ki 14:23
- BUILT BY
- Priests ordained for 1Ki 12:32; 13:33
- Sacrifices and incense offered to idols upon 2Ki 12:3; 16:4
- Enchantments used upon Nu 23:3; 24:1
- Of the Canaanites to be destroyed Nu 33:52
- THE JEWS
- DESTROYED
- NOT REMOVED
Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896); Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.