'High Place' in the Bible

and say, ‘Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, the hills, the ravines and the valleys: “Behold, I Myself am going to bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.

In all your dwellings, cities will become waste and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and desolate, your idols may be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.

You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, which should never come about nor happen.

that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every square.

You built yourself a high place at the top of every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry.

When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in disdaining money, you were not like a harlot.

I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.

Then I said to them, ‘What is the high place to which you go?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.”’