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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)
Dictionary Aids

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 104 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 - I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:28 - For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has consumed Ar of Moab and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land, and he ate of the produce of the fields. He provided honey for him from the cliffs, and olive oil from the hardest of rocks,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:29 - You have joy, Israel! Who is like you? You are a people delivered by the LORD, your protective shield and your exalted sword. May your enemies cringe before you; may you trample on their backs.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:12 - They replied, "Yes, straight ahead! But hurry now, for he came to the town today, and the people are making a sacrifice at the high place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:13 - When you enter the town, you can find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people won't eat until he arrives, for he must bless the sacrifice. Once that happens, those who have been invited will eat. Now go on up, for this is the time when you can find him!"

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:14 - So they went up to the town. As they were heading for the middle of the town, Samuel was coming in their direction to go up to the high place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:19 - Samuel replied to Saul, "I am the seer! Go up in front of me to the high place! Today you will eat with me and in the morning I will send you away. I will tell you everything that you are thinking.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:25 - When they came down from the high place to the town, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - Afterward you will go to Gibeah of God, where there are Philistine officials. When you enter the town, you will meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place. They will have harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:13 - When Saul had finished prophesying, he went to the high place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:19 - The beauty of Israel lies slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:25 - How the warriors have fallen in the midst of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your high places!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:34 - He gives me the agility of a deer; he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:2 - Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:3 - Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the LORD by following the practices of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:4 - The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. Solomon would offer up a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - Furthermore, on the hill east of Jerusalem Solomon built a high place for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:31 - He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival celebrated in Judah. On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - With the authority of the LORD he cried out against the altar, "O altar, altar! This is what the LORD says, 'Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:32 - for the prophecy he announced with the LORD's authority against the altar in Bethel and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north will certainly be fulfilled."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:33 - After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23 - They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:14 - The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43 - He followed in his father Asa's footsteps and was careful to do what the LORD approved. (22:44) However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:3 - But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:4 - But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:4 - But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:35 - But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate to the LORD's temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:4 - He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9 - The Israelites said things about the LORD their God that were not right. They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:11 - They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the LORD had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the LORD angry.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:29 - But each of these nations made its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:32 - At the same time they worshiped the LORD. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4 - He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:22 - Perhaps you will tell me, 'We are trusting in the LORD our God.' But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5 - He eliminated the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to offer sacrifices on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the area right around Jerusalem. (They offered sacrifices to Baal, the sun god, the moon god, the constellations, and all the stars in the sky.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8 - He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba. He tore down the high place of the goat idols situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:9 - (Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - He also tore down the altar in Bethel at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the LORD. He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20 - He sacrificed all the priests of the high places on the altars located there, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:39 - Zadok the priest and his fellow priests served before the LORD's tabernacle at the worship center in Gibeon,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:29 - Now the LORD's tabernacle (which Moses had made in the wilderness) and the altar for burnt sacrifices were at that time at the worship center in Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 1:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:3 - Solomon and the entire assembly went to the worship center in Gibeon, for the tent where they met God was located there, which Moses the LORD's servant had made in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:13 - Solomon left the meeting tent at the worship center in Gibeon and went to Jerusalem, where he reigned over Israel.

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