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Lexicon :: Strong's H1116 - bāmâ

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בָּמָה
Transliteration
bāmâ
Pronunciation
bam-maw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root (meaning to be high)
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TWOT Reference: 253

Strong’s Definitions

בָּמָה bâmâh, bam-maw'; from an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation:—height, high place, wave.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 102x

The KJV translates Strong's H1116 in the following manner: high place (100x), heights (1x), waves (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 102x
The KJV translates Strong's H1116 in the following manner: high place (100x), heights (1x), waves (1x).

  1. high place, ridge, height, bamah (technical name for cultic platform)

    1. high place, mountain

    2. high places, battlefields

    3. high places (as places of worship)

    4. funeral mound?

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בָּמָה bâmâh, bam-maw'; from an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation:—height, high place, wave.
STRONGS H1116: Abbreviations
† בָּמָה 104 noun feminine high place (√ apparently בום on account of firm ָ֯; compare Assyrian bâmâtê ZimBP 48, Moab. במת MI3, 27) — Jeremiah 48:35 + 18 times; הַבָּמָ֫תָה 1 Samuel 9:13; plural בָּמוֺת Numbers 21:19 + 62 times; construct בָּֽמֳתֵי Job 9:8; Isaiah 14:14; Amos 4:13; בָּֽמֳו֯תֵי Deuteronomy 32:13; Isaiah 58:14; Micah 1:3 (Ew§ 211 d Ges§ 87, 5 archaic feminine construct with retracted accent before monosyl. in poetry, bâmŏ-thê not bŏm); suffix בָּמֹתַי 2 Samuel 22:34 + 3 times; בָּמוֺתַי Psalm 18:34 + 10 times; —
1. high place, mountain: בָּמוֺת יָעַר forest mountains Micah 3:12 = Jeremiah 26:18; במות עולם ancient mountains Ezekiel 36:2; במות ארנן Numbers 21:28 (E poetry).
2. high places, battle-fields, the chief places of the land giving possession, victory, dominion: על במותיך on thy high places (Gilboa, the battle-field) 2 Samuel 1:19, 25 (in 2 Samuel 1:19 Greek Version of the LXX has a doublet מֵתֶיךָ thy dead, see We Dr).
a. of Israel: רכב על במתי ארץ ride upon the high places of the land Deuteronomy 32:13 & Isaiah 58:14 compare Deuteronomy 33:29; Psalm 18:34 = 2 Samuel 22:34; Habakkuk 3:19.
b. of God: דרך על במתי ארץ tread upon the high places of the earth Amos 4:13 compare Micah 1:3; במתי ים Job 9:8; עלה על במתי עב (aspiration of the king of Babylon) Isaiah 14:14.
3. high places, as places of worship, at first on hills and mountains, later on artificial mounds or platforms, under green trees, and in cities; still later for the chapels erected thereon, and once apparently for a portable sanctuary (decked with diverse colours) Ezekiel 16:16. The ancient worship of Israel was conducted on these high places. In the times of Samuel and David they ascended to them, descended from them, and offered sacrifices on them, 1 Samuel 9:12-25; 1 Samuel 10:5, 13 (הבמה for הביתה We Dr). The custom continued in the reign of Solomon, but Gibeon was הבמה הגדולה 1 Kings 3:2-4 compare 1 Chronicles 16:39; 1 Chronicles 21:29; 2 Chronicles 1:3, 13. High places of Baal were also used Numbers 22:41 (E) Jeremiah 19:5; Jeremiah 32:35; of Moab Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 16:12; Jeremiah 48:35 (compare MI27); these must be demolished Numbers 33:52 (J). Solomon built במות (platforms or chapels) to Chemosh and Milkom on the Mt. of Evil Counsel opposite Jerusalem 1 Kings 11:7: Jeroboam made temples on the ancient high places of Dan and Bethel 1 Kings 12:31, 32; 2 Chronicles 11:15; they are called במות און Hosea 10:8, במות ישׂחק Amos 7:9: the kings of Israel built במות and בתי הבמות in all their cities 2 Kings 17:9, and the people worshipped there 2 Kings 17:11; these were also used by the mixed population after the exile of Israel 2 Kings 17:29, 32 (twice in verse): these various idolatrous high places were first destroyed by Josiah 1 Kings 13:2; 1 Kings 13:32; 1 Kings 13:38; 2 Kings 23:5-20 2 Chronicles 34:3. The worship of Yahweh on high places continued in Judah until the exile 1 Kings 22:44; 2 Kings 15:35; the sanctity code predicts that Yahweh will destroy them Leviticus 26:30; they were regarded as the reason for the rejection of Shiloh Psalm 78:58. The compiler of Kings, writing from the point of view of the Deuteronomic code, complains רַק הַבָּמוֺת לֹא סָרוּ 2 Kings 12:4; 2 Kings 14:4; 2 Kings 15:4, 35 compare 2 Chronicles 15:17; 20:33, and praises the few pious kings who destroyed them.
a. Rehoboam built במות with מצבות & אשׁרים on every high hill and under every green tree 1 Kings 14:23.
b. Asa did not remove the high places 1 Kings 15:14 (2 Chronicles 14:2; 2 Chronicles 14:4 is incorrect unless במות בעל).
c. Jehoshaphat in his reform on the basis of the covenant code did not remove them 1 Kings 22:44 (עוֺד הֵסִיר אֶת־הַבָּמוֺת 2 Chronicles 17:16 is doubtless incorrect, possibly read מצבות); Jehoram, his son, made high places in the cities of Judah 2 Chronicles 21:11 (Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate; not mountains HCT); and Ahaz sacrificed on high places on the hills and under every green tree and in every city of Judah 2 Kings 16:4; 2 Chronicles 28:4, 25; compare Micah 1:5 (read חטאת ? so Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Targum Che and others; yet compare JBL1890, 73 f.)
d. Hezekiah removed them 2 Kings 18:4, 22; 2 Chronicles 31:1; 32:12; Isaiah 36:7; but Manasseh rebuilt them 2 Kings 21:3; 2 Chronicles 33:3, 19, and the people continued to sacrifice thereon to Yahweh 2 Chronicles 33:17.
e. Josiah, in his reform, based on the Deuteronomic code, defiled them and brake them down from Geba to Beersheba 2 Kings 23:5, 8, 9; but subsequently there were במות התפת in the valley of Ben Hinnom Jeremiah 7:31, and במות throughout Judah Jeremiah 17:3 compare Ezekiel 6:3, 6;
[H1117 Ezekiel 20:29] (questioned by Ew & Co).
4. funereal mound (?) Ezekiel 43:7 (Thes, but in their high places AV RV; in their death Targum Theod Ew Hi RVm), Isaiah 53:9 (Lowth Ew Bö Rodwell Orelli; but in his death AV RV, or martyr death De Che Br).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

26:30

Numbers

21:19; 21:28; 22:41; 33:52

Deuteronomy

32:13; 32:13; 33:29

1 Samuel

9:12; 9:13; 9:13; 9:14; 9:15; 9:16; 9:17; 9:18; 9:19; 9:20; 9:21; 9:22; 9:23; 9:24; 9:25; 10:5; 10:13

2 Samuel

1:19; 1:19; 1:25; 22:34; 22:34

1 Kings

3:2; 3:3; 3:4; 11:7; 12:31; 12:32; 13:2; 13:32; 14:23; 15:14; 22:44; 22:44

2 Kings

12:4; 14:4; 15:4; 15:35; 15:35; 16:4; 17:9; 17:11; 17:29; 17:32; 18:4; 18:22; 21:3; 23:5; 23:5; 23:6; 23:7; 23:8; 23:8; 23:9; 23:9; 23:10; 23:11; 23:12; 23:13; 23:14; 23:15; 23:16; 23:17; 23:18; 23:19; 23:20

1 Chronicles

16:39; 21:29

2 Chronicles

1:3; 1:13; 11:15; 14:2; 14:4; 15:17; 17:16; 20:33; 21:11; 28:4; 28:25; 31:1; 32:12; 33:3; 33:17; 33:19; 34:3

Job

9:8; 9:8

Psalms

18:34; 18:34; 78:58

Isaiah

14:14; 14:14; 15:2; 16:12; 36:7; 53:9; 58:14; 58:14

Jeremiah

7:31; 17:3; 19:5; 26:18; 32:35; 48:35; 48:35

Ezekiel

6:3; 6:6; 16:16; 36:2; 43:7

Hosea

10:8

Amos

4:13; 4:13; 7:9

Micah

1:3; 1:3; 1:5; 3:12

Habakkuk

3:19

H1116

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Strong's Number H1116 matches the Hebrew בָּמָה (bāmâ),
which occurs 102 times in 92 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Lev 26:30–2Ch 1:13)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - And I will render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden images made with hands; and I will lay your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall loathe you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:28 - For a fire has gone forth from Esebon, a flame from the city of Seon, and has consumed as far as Moab, and devoured the pillars of Arnon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - And ye shall destroy all that dwell in the land before your face, and ye shall abolish their high places, and all their molten images ye shall destroy, and ye shall demolish all their pillars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He brought them up on the strength of the land; he fed them with the fruits of the fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid rock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:29 - Blessed art thou, O Israel; who is like to thee, O people saved by the Lord? thy helper shall hold his shield over thee, and his sword is thy boast; and thine enemies shall speak falsely to thee, and thou shalt tread upon their neck.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:12 - And the virgins answered them, and they say to them, He is: behold, he is before you: now he is coming to the city, because of the day, for to-day there is a sacrifice for the people in Bama.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:13 - As soon as ye shall enter into the city, so shall ye find him in the city, before he goes up to Bama to eat; for the people will not eat until he comes in, for he blesses the sacrifice, and afterwards the guests eat; now then go up, for ye shall find him because of the [fn]holiday.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:14 - And they go up to the city; and as they were entering into the midst of the city, behold, Samuel came out to meet them, to go up to Bama.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:19 - And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am he: go up before me to Bama, and eat with me to-day, and I will send thee away in the morning, and I will tell thee all that is in thine heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:25 - And he went down from Bama into the city; and they prepared a lodging for Saul on the roof, and he lay down.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - And afterward thou shalt go to the hill of God, where is the encampment of the Philistines; there is Nasib the Philistine: and it shall come to pass when ye shall have entered into the city, that thou shalt meet a band of prophets coming down from the Bama; and before them will be lutes, and a drum, and a pipe, and a harp, and they [fn]shall prophesy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:13 - And he ceased prophesying, and comes to the hill.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:19 - [fn]Set up a pillar, O Israel, for [fn]the slain that died upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:25 - How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, even the slain ones upon thy high places!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:34 - [fn]He makes my feet like harts' feet, and sets me upon the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:2 - Nevertheless the people burnt incense on the high places, because a house had not yet been built to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:3 - And Solomon loved the Lord, so as to walk in the ordinances of David his father; only he sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:4 - And he arose and went to Gabaon to sacrifice there, for that was the highest place, and great: Solomon offered a whole-burnt-offering of a thousand victims on the altar in Gabaon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - (LXX 11:5) Then Solomon built a high place to Chamos the idol of Moab, and to their king the [fn]idol of the children of Ammon,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:31 - And he made houses on the high places, and made priests of any part of the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - And Jeroboam appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, according to the feast in the land of Juda;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - And he cried against the altar by the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord, Behold, a son is to be born to the house of David, [fn]Josias by name; and he shall offer upon thee the priests of the high places, even of them that sacrifice upon thee, and he shall burn men's bones upon thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:32 - For the word will surely come to pass which he spoke by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bæthel, and against the high houses in Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:33 - And after [fn]this Jeroboam turned not from his sin, but he turned and made of part of the people priests of the high places: whoever would, he consecrated him, and he became a priest for the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23 - And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and planted groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:14 - But he removed not the high places; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43 - And he walked in all the way of Asa his father: he turned not from it, even from doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord. (LXX 22:44) Only he took not away any of the high places: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:3 - (LXX 12:4) Only there were not any of the high places removed, and the people still sacrificed there, and burned incense on the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:4 - Only he removed not the high places: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:4 - Only he took not away any of the high places: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:35 - Nevertheless he took not away the high places: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the Lord's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:4 - And he sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places, and upon the hills, and under every [fn]shady tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9 - and in those of the children of Israel as many as [fn]secretly practised customs, not as they should have done, against the Lord their God:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:11 - And burned incense there on all high places, as the nations did whom the Lord removed from before them, and dealt with familiar spirits, and they carved images to provoke the Lord to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:29 - But the nations made each their own gods, and put them in the house of the high places which the Samaritans had made, each nation in the cities in which they dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:32 - And they feared the Lord, yet they established their abominations in the houses of the high places which they made in Samaria, each nation in the city in which they dwelt: and they feared the Lord, and they made for themselves priests of the high places, and sacrificed for themselves in the house of the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4 - He [fn]removed the high places, and broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and the brazen serpent which Moses made: because until those days the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called it Neesthan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:22 - And whereas thou hast said to me, We trust on the Lord God: is not this he, [fn]whose high places and altars Ezekias has removed, and has said to Juda and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - And he [fn]built again the high places, which Ezekias his father had demolished; and [fn]set up an altar to Baal, and made groves as Achaab king of Israel made them; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5 - And he burned the [fn]idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Juda had [fn]appointed, (and they burned incense in the high places and in the cities of Juda, and the places round about Jerusalem); and them that burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to [fn]Mazuroth, and to all the host of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8 - And he brought up all the priests from the cities of Juda, and defiled the high places where the priests burned incense, from Gæbal even to Bersabee; and he pulled down the house of the gates that was by the door of the gate of Joshua the ruler of the city, on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:9 - Only the priests of the high places went not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, for they only ate leavened bread in the midst of their brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - And the king defiled the house that was before Jerusalem, on the right hand of the mount of Mosthath, which Solomon king of Israel built to Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chamos the abomination of Moab, and to Moloch the abomination of the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - Also the high altar in Bæthel, which Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that high altar he tore down, and broke in pieces the stones of it, and reduced it to powder, and burnt the grove.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - Moreover Josias removed all the houses of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel made to provoke the Lord, and did to them all that he did in Bæthel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20 - And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places that were there on the altars, and burnt the bones of men upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:39 - And they appointed Sadoc the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place in Gabaon,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:29 - And the tabernacle of the Lord which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of whole-burnt-offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gabaon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:3 - and Solomon and all the congregation went to the high place that was in Gabaon, where was God's tabernacle of witness, which Moses the servant of the Lord made in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:13 - And Solomon came from the high place that was in Gabaon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of witness, and reigned over Israel.

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