more High Places

03-LEV/26.usfm

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 \v 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
-\v 30 I will destroy your shrines, cut down your incense altars, and throw your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and I myself will abhor you.
+\v 30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and throw your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and I myself will abhor you.
 
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 \v 31 I will turn your cities into ruins and destroy your sanctuaries. I will not be pleased with the aroma of your offerings.

04-NUM/21.usfm

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 \v 28 A fire blazed from Heshbon,
 \q a flame from the city of Sihon 
 \q that devoured Ar of Moab,
-\q and the owners of the hills by the Arnon.
+\q and the owners of the high places of Arnon.
  
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04-NUM/22.usfm

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-\v 41 In the morning, Balak took Balaam up to the shrines of Baal. From there Balaam could see only a part of the Israelites in their camp.
+\v 41 In the morning, Balak took Balaam up to the high place of Baal. From there Balaam could see only a part of the Israelites in their camp.
 
 
 

05-DEU/32.usfm

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-\v 13 He made him ride on the heights of the land,
+\v 13 He made him ride on high places of the land,
 \q and he fed him the fruits of the field;
 \q he nourished him with honey from the rock,
 \q and oil from the flinty crag.

10-2SA/22.usfm

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 \v 34 He makes my feet swift like a deer
-\q and places me on the mountains.
+\q and places me on the high hills.
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 \v 35 He trains my hands for war,
 \q and my arms to bend a bow of bronze.

11-1KI/03.usfm

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 \v 1 Solomon allied himself by marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house, the house of Yahweh, and the wall around Jerusalem.
-\v 2 The people were sacrificing at the shrines, because no house had yet been built for the name of Yahweh.
-\v 3 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense at the shrines.
+\v 2 The people were sacrificing at the high places, because no house had yet been built for the name of Yahweh.
+\v 3 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.
 
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11-1KI/04.usfm

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 \v 1 King Solomon was king over all Israel.
 \v 2 These were his officials: Azariah son of Zadok was the priest.
 \v 3 Elihoreph and Ahijah sons of Shisha, were secretaries. Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder.
-\v 4 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the army. 
-Zadok and Abiathar were priests.
+\v 4 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the army. Zadok and Abiathar were priests.
 \f + \ft Some versions treat \fqa Zadok and Abiathar were priests \fqb as a later addition to the text. \f*
 
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11-1KI/11.usfm

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 \v 7 Then Solomon built a shrine for Chemosh, the disgusting idol of Moab, on a hill east of Jerusalem, and also for Molech, the disgusting idol of the people of Ammon.
-\v 8 He also built shrines for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods at them.
+\v 8 He also built high places for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods at them.
 
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11-1KI/12.usfm

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 \v 30 So this act became a sin. The people went to one or the other, all the way to Dan.
 
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-\v 31 Jeroboam made temples at shrines; he also made priests from among all the people, who were not among the sons of Levi.
-\v 32 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the shrines that he had made.
+\v 31 Jeroboam made houses on high places and he also made priests from among all the people, who were not among the sons of Levi.
+\v 32 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places he had made.
 
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 \v 33 Jeroboam went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month he had planned in his own mind; he ordained a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to burn incense.

12-2KI/12.usfm

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 \v 1 In the seventh year of Jehu, the reign of Joash began; he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
 \v 2 Joash did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the time, because Jehoiada the priest was instructing him.
-\v 3 But the shrines were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at them.
+\v 3 But the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
 
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12-2KI/14.usfm

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 \v 20 They brought him back on horses, and he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David.
 \v 21 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
-\v 22 It was Azariah who rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah, after King Amaziah slept with his ancestors.
+\v 22 It was Azariah who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah, after King Amaziah slept with his ancestors.
 
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13-1CH/16.usfm

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 \v 37 So David left Asaph and his brothers before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to serve continually before the ark, as every day's work required.
 \v 38 Obed Edom with those sixty-eight relatives were included. Obed Edom son of Jeduthun, along with Hosah, were to be gatekeepers.
-\v 39 Zadok the priest and his fellow priests were to serve before the tabernacle of Yahweh at the shrine at Gibeon.
+\v 39 Zadok the priest and his fellow priests were to serve before the tabernacle of Yahweh at the high place in Gibeon.
 
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 \v 40 They were to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar for burnt offerings continually morning and evening, following all that is written in the law of Yahweh, which he gave as a command to Israel.

13-1CH/21.usfm

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 \v 28 When David saw that Yahweh had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he performed the sacrifice there at that same time.
-\v 29 Now at that time, Yahweh's tabernacle, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar for burnt offerings, were at the shrine at Gibeon.
+\v 29 Now at that time, Yahweh's tabernacle, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar for burnt offerings, were at the high place at Gibeon.
 \v 30 However, David could not go there to ask for God's direction, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.
  
 

14-2CH/01.usfm

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 \v 2 Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers' houses.
-\v 3 So Solomon and all the assembly with him went to the shrine that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of Yahweh, had made in the wilderness.
+\v 3 So Solomon and all the assembly with him went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of Yahweh, had made in the wilderness.
 \v 4 But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to the place that he had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.
 \v 5 In addition, the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur was there before the tabernacle of Yahweh; Solomon and the assembly went to it.
 \f + \ft Some older versions have, \fqa the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, he placed there before the tabernacle of Yahweh \fqb , where \fqa he \fqb refers to David. \f*
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 \v 12 Wisdom and knowledge are now given to you; I will also give you riches, wealth, honor, more than any of the kings before you ever had, and more than any after you will have."
-\v 13 So Solomon came to Jerusalem from the shrine that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting; he reigned over Israel.
+\v 13 So Solomon came to Jerusalem from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting; he reigned over Israel.
  
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14-2CH/15.usfm

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 \v 16 He also removed Maacah, his grandmother, from being queen, because she had made a disgusting figure out of an Asherah pole. Asa cut down the disgusting figure, ground it to dust and burned it at the brook Kidron.
-\v 17 But the shrines were not taken away from Israel. Nevertheless, Asa's heart was completely devoted all his days.
+\v 17 But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, Asa's heart was completely devoted all his days.
 
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 \v 18 He brought into the house of God the things of his father and his own things that belong to Yahweh: silver and gold objects.