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Want to know what the Bible says about High Places? Here are 56 Bible verses about High Places from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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1 Kings 11:7-8 NIV
7 On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. 8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
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1 Samuel 9:12 NIV
“He is,” they answered. “He’s ahead of you. Hurry now; he has just come to our town today, for the people have a sacrifice at the high place.
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1 Kings 3:2 NIV
The people, however, were still sacrificing at the high places, because a temple had not yet been built for the Name of the Lord.
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1 Kings 3:4 NIV
The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
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2 Chronicles 33:17 NIV
The people, however, continued to sacrifice at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
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Numbers 21:28 NIV
“Fire went out from Heshbon,
    a blaze from the city of Sihon.
It consumed Ar of Moab,
    the citizens of Arnon’s heights.
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Numbers 22:41 NIV
The next morning Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth Baal, and from there he could see the outskirts of the Israelite camp.
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Jeremiah 7:31 NIV
They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.
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Ezekiel 20:29 NIV
Then I said to them: What is this high place you go to?’” (It is called Bamah to this day.)
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Hosea 10:8 NIV
The high places of wickedness will be destroyed—
    it is the sin of Israel.
Thorns and thistles will grow up
    and cover their altars.
Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!”
    and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
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Ezekiel 16:16 NIV
You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places, where you carried on your prostitution. You went to him, and he possessed your beauty.
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1 Kings 14:23 NIV
They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
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1 Kings 11:7 NIV
On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites.
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1 Kings 12:31 NIV
Jeroboam built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.
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2 Chronicles 21:11 NIV
He had also built high places on the hills of Judah and had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.
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2 Chronicles 28:25 NIV
In every town in Judah he built high places to burn sacrifices to other gods and aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of his ancestors.
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2 Kings 21:3 NIV
He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he also erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.
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2 Chronicles 33:3 NIV
He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had demolished; he also erected altars to the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.
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2 Kings 17:9 NIV
The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city they built themselves high places in all their towns.
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1 Kings 12:32 NIV
He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made.
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