Lexicon :: Strong's H5945 - ʿelyôn

Melchizedek, king of Salem,[fn] brought out bread and wine; he was a priest to God Most High.

But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand in an oath to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,

“In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

the oracle of one who hears the sayings of God

and has knowledge from the Most High,

who sees a vision from the Almighty,

who falls into a trance with his eyes uncovered:

“that he will elevate you to praise, fame, and glory above all the nations he has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God as he promised.”

“Now if you faithfully obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all his commands I am giving you today, the LORD your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth.

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance[fn]

and divided the human race,

he set the boundaries of the peoples

according to the number of the people of Israel.[fn]

This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans:

The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar on the east to Upper Beth-horon.

The LORD thundered from heaven;

the Most High made his voice heard.

Though this temple is now exalted,[fn] everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff.[fn] They will say, “Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple?”

Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

Jotham built the Upper Gate of the LORD’s temple.

Then the king of Assyria sent the field marshal, the chief of staff, and his royal spokesman, along with a massive army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced and came to Jerusalem, and[fn] they took their position by the aqueduct of the upper pool, by the road to the Launderer’s Field.

His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah,

As for this temple, which was exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will say, “Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple?”

He built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon ​— ​fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars ​— ​

Then he took with him the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land and brought the king down from the LORD’s temple. They entered the king’s palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the throne of the kingdom.

Jotham built the Upper Gate of the LORD’s temple, and he built extensively on the wall of Ophel.

This same Hezekiah blocked the upper outlet of the water from the Gihon Spring and channeled it smoothly downward and westward to the city of David. Hezekiah succeeded in everything he did.

Palal son of Uzai made repairs opposite the Angle and tower that juts out from the king’s upper palace,[fn] by the courtyard of the guard. Beside him Pedaiah son of Parosh

I will thank the LORD for his righteousness;

I will sing about the name of the LORD Most High.

I will rejoice and boast about you;

I will sing about your name, Most High.

The LORD thundered from[fn] heaven;

the Most High made his voice heard.[fn]

For the king relies on the LORD;

through the faithful love of the Most High

he is not shaken.

There is a river —

its streams delight the city of God,

the holy dwelling place of the Most High.

For the LORD, the Most High, is awe-inspiring,

a great King over the whole earth.

“Offer a thanksgiving sacrifice to God,

and pay your vows to the Most High.

I call to God Most High,

to God who fulfills his purpose for me.[fn]

The wicked say, “How can God know?

Does the Most High know everything? ”

So I say, “I am grieved

that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”[fn]

But they continued to sin against him,

rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

They remembered that God was their rock,

the Most High God, their Redeemer.

But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,

for they did not keep his decrees.

I said, “You are gods;

you are all sons of the Most High.

May they know that you alone —

whose name is the LORD —

are the Most High over the whole earth.

And it will be said of Zion,

“This one and that one were born in her.”

The Most High himself will establish her.

“I will also make him my firstborn,

greatest of the kings of the earth.

The one who lives under the protection of the Most High

dwells in the shadow of the Almighty.

Because you have made the LORD ​— ​my refuge,

the Most High ​— ​your dwelling place,

It is good to give thanks to the LORD,

to sing praise to your name, Most High,

For you, LORD,

are the Most High over the whole earth;

you are exalted above all the gods.

because they rebelled against God’s commands

and despised the counsel of the Most High.

The LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub[fn] to meet Ahaz at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, by the road to the Launderer’s Field.

“I will ascend above the highest clouds;

I will make myself like the Most High.”

Then the king of Assyria sent his royal spokesman, along with a massive army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. The Assyrian stood near the conduit of the upper pool, by the road to Launderer’s Field.

So Pashhur had the prophet Jeremiah beaten and put him in the stocks at the Upper Benjamin Gate in the LORD’s temple.

Then at the LORD’s temple, in the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate of the LORD’s temple, in the hearing of all the people, Baruch read Jeremiah’s words from the scroll.

denying justice to a man

in the presence of the Most High,

Do not both adversity and good

come from the mouth of the Most High?