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High Places: A Term Used to Describe Places of Worship Genesis 12:8

From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.

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High Places: A Term Used to Describe Places of Worship Genesis 22:2, 14

“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.” / And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

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High Places: A Term Used to Describe Places of Worship Genesis 31:54

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

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High Places: A Term Used to Describe Places of Worship 1 Samuel 9:12

“Yes, he is ahead of you,” they answered. “Hurry now, for today he has come to the city because the people have a sacrifice on the high place.

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High Places: A Term Used to Describe Places of Worship 2 Samuel 24:25

And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.

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High Places: A Term Used to Describe Places of Worship 1 Kings 3:2, 4

The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built. / Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.

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High Places: A Term Used to Describe Places of Worship 1 Kings 18:30, 38

Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people approached him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been torn down. / Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water in the trench.

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High Places: A Term Used to Describe Places of Worship 1 Chronicles 16:39

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

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High Places: A Term Used to Describe Places of Worship 2 Chronicles 1:3

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.

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High Places: A Term Used to Describe Places of Worship 2 Chronicles 33:17

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

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