high place

English

Noun

high place (plural high places)

  1. (biblical) A place of worship.
    • a. 1728 (date written), Isaac Newton, “Introduction Concerning the Compilers of the Books of the Old Testament”, in Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. […], London: […] J. Darby and T. Browne […]; and sold by J. Roberts […], published 1733, →OCLC, part I (Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel), page 3:
      […] Jehoſaphat took avvay the high places, and in the third year of his reign ſent ſome of his Princes, and of the Prieſts and Levites, to teach in the cities of Judah: […]
      That is, places for the worship of idols.

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