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High Places

 

High Places

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

• Gibeon
- 1Ki 3:4
• Arnon
- Nu 21:28
• Baal
- Nu 22:41
• Tophet
- Jer 7:31
• Bamah
- Eze 20:29
• Aven
- Ho 10:8

Adorned with tapestry - Eze 16:16

Surrounded with groves - 1Ki 14:23

BUILT BY

• Solomon
- 1Ki 11:7
• Jeroboam
- 1Ki 12:31
• Jehoram
- 2Ch 21:11
• Ahaz
- 2Ch 28:25
• Manasseh
- 2Ki 21:3; 2Ch 33:3
• People of Judah
- 1Ki 14:23
• People of Israel
- 2Ki 17:9

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

• Built, in their cities
- 2Ki 17:9
• Built, in all their streets
- Eze 16:24,31
• Condemned for building
- Eze 16:23-35
• Provoked God with
- 1Ki 14:22,23; Ps 78:58
• Threatened with destruction of
- Le 26:30
• Punished for
- 2Ki 17:11,18

DESTROYED

• Asa, partially
- 2Ch 14:3,5; 15:17
• Jehoshaphat
- 2Ch 17:6
• Hezekiah
- 2Ki 18:4; 2Ch 31:1
• Josiah
- 2Ki 23:8; 2Ch 34:3

NOT REMOVED

• Jehoash
- 2Ki 12:3
• Amaziah
- 2Ki 14:4
• Azariah
- 2Ki 15:4
• Jotham
- 2Ki 15:35
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