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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 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 sun-images, and cast your dead bodies on the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:28 - For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sichon: It has devoured `Ar of Mo'av, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He made him ride on the high places of the eretz, He ate the increase of the field; He made him to suck honey out of the rock, Oil out of the flinty rock;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:29 - Happy are you, Yisra'el: Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, The shield of your help, The sword of your excellency! Your enemies shall submit themselves to you; You shall tread on their high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:12 - They answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he is come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:13 - as soon as you are come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he does bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat who are invited. Now therefore get you up; for at this time you shall find him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:14 - They went up to the city; and as they came within the city, behold, Shemu'el came out toward them, to go up to the high place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:19 - Shemu'el answered Sha'ul, and said, I am the seer; go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today: and in the morning I will let you go, and will tell you all that is in your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:25 - When they were come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Sha'ul on the housetop.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Pelishtim: and it shall happen, when you are come there to the city, that you shall meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tambourine, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:13 - When he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:19 - Your glory, Yisra'el, is slain on your high places! How are the mighty fallen!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:25 - How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Yonatan is slain on your high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:34 - He makes his feet like hinds' feet, Sets me on my high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:2 - Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:3 - Shlomo loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:4 - The king went to Giv`on to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Shlomo offer on that altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - Then did Shlomo build a high place for Kemosh the abomination of Mo'av, on the mountain that is before Yerushalayim, and for Molekh the abomination of the children of `Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:31 - He made houses of high places, and made Kohanim from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - Yarov`am ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Yehudah, and he went up to the altar; so did he in Beit-El, sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beit-El the Kohanim of the high places that he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - He cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, altar, altar, thus says the LORD: Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Yoshiyahu by name; and on you shall he sacrifice the Kohanim of the high places who burn incense on you, and men's bones shall they burn on you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:32 - For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Beit-El, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Shomron, shall surely happen.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:33 - After this thing Yarov`am didn't return from his evil way, but made again from among all the people Kohanim of the high places: whoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be Kohanim of the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23 - For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:14 - But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the LORD all his days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43 - He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:3 - However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:4 - However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:4 - However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:35 - However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:4 - He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9 - The children of Yisra'el did secretly things that were not right against the LORD their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:11 - and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom the LORD carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:29 - However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Shomroni had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:32 - So they feared the LORD, and made to them from among themselves Kohanim of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4 - He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moshe had made; for to those days the children of Yisra'el did burn incense to it; and he called it Nechushtan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:22 - But if you tell me, We trust in the LORD our God; isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hizkiyahu has taken away, and has said to Yehudah and to Yerushalayim, You shall worship before this altar in Yerushalayim?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - For he built again the high places which Hizkiyahu his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Ba`al, and made an Asherah, as did Ach'av king of Yisra'el, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5 - He put down the idolatrous Kohanim, whom the kings of Yehudah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Yehudah, and in the places round about Yerushalayim; those also who burned incense to Ba`al, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of the sky.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8 - He brought all the Kohanim out of the cities of Yehudah, and defiled the high places where the Kohanim had burned incense, from Geva to Be'er-Sheva; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Yehoshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:9 - Nevertheless the Kohanim of the high places didn't come up to the altar of the LORD in Yerushalayim, but they ate matzah among their brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - The high places that were before Yerushalayim, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Shlomo the king of Yisra'el had built for `Ashoret the abomination of the Tzidonim, and for Kemosh the abomination of Mo'av, and for Milkom the abomination of the children of `Ammon, did the king defile.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - Moreover the altar that was at Beit-El, and the high place which Yarov`am the son of Nevat, who made Yisra'el to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Shomron, which the kings of Yisra'el had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Yoshiyahu took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beit-El.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20 - He killed all the Kohanim of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Yerushalayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:39 - and Tzadok the Kohen, and his brothers the Kohanim, before the tent of the LORD in the high place that was at Giv`on,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:29 - For the tent of the LORD, which Moshe made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Giv`on.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:3 - So Shlomo, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Giv`on; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moshe the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:13 - So Shlomo came from the high place that was at Giv`on, from before the tent of meeting, to Yerushalayim; and he reigned over Yisra'el.

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