High Place

And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an High Place.

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:

As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the High Place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.

And they went up into the city: and when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the High Place.

And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the High Place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.

• House

And when they were come down from the High Place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.

After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the High Place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:

And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the High Place.

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.

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.

Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the High Place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the High Place he brake down, and burned the High Place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the High Place that was at Gibeon,

• Tabernacle

For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the High Place at Gibeon.

So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the High Place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

Then Solomon came from his journey to the High Place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.

Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the High priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his Place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

• River

There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy Place of the tabernacles of the most High.

He that dwelleth in the secret Place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the High Place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

He shall dwell on High: his Place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

• Contrite
• Character

For thus saith the High and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the High and holy Place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

A glorious High throne from the beginning is the Place of our sanctuary.

Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every High hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the Place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.

That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent Place, and hast made thee an High Place in every street.

Thou hast built thy High Place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

In that thou buildest thine eminent Place in the head of every way, and makest thine High Place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent Place, and shall break down thy High places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

Then I said unto them, What is the High Place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

• Church

And he said unto me, Son of man, the Place of my throne, and the Place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their High places.

For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his Place, and will come down, and tread upon the High places of the earth.

Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the High priest entereth into the holy Place every year with blood of others;