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An elevated worship site — sometimes legitimate, often used for pagan worship
4 mentions across 2 books
Hilltop worship sites common throughout Canaan. Before the Temple was built, Israelites sometimes used high places to worship God legitimately (1 Samuel 9:12). But they became centers of pagan worship and syncretism, and the prophets condemned Israel for refusing to tear them down.
The high place at Gibeon is specifically the legitimate national worship site at this moment in history — not a pagan shrine but the authorized location of the Mosaic Tabernacle and bronze altar.
Ahaz Goes Full Villain Mode2 Chronicles 28:1-4High places are the decentralized worship sites Ahaz establishes across every hill and under every tree — a systematic dismantling of centralized Temple worship that scattered idolatry throughout the entire kingdom.
The Legacy Scroll2 Chronicles 33:18-20High places are listed among the sins recorded in Manasseh's legacy — the Chronicles document every pagan site he built, making his later repentance all the more striking by contrast.