High places, Eze 20:29. Bamoth-baal was a station of the Hebrews, in the border of Moab, Nu 21:20; 22:41; afterwards assigned to the tribe of Reuben, Jos 13:17. Baal was worshipped there, and it was perhaps the "high places" referred to in Isa 15:2. See HIGH PLACES.
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the land of Moab, at the top of Pisgah which overlooks the wasteland.
Then it came about in the morning that Balak took Balaam and brought him up to the high places of Baal, and he saw from there a portion of the people.
Heshbon, and all its cities which are on the plain: Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon,
They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba; Everyone's head is bald and every beard is cut off.
"Then I said to them, 'What is the high place to which you go?' So its name is called Bamah to this day."'
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