Occurrences
Bâmâh occurs 102 times in 92 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (1), Numbers (3), Deuteronomy (2), 1 Samuel (7), 2 Samuel (3), 1 Kings (11), 2 Kings (19), 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (17), Job (1), Psalms (2), Isaiah (5), Jeremiah (6), Ezekiel (6), Hosea (1), Amos (2), Micah (3), Habakkuk (1)
- Leviticus 26:30 — And I will destroy your high places (בָּמֹֽתֵיכֶ֗ם), and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
- Numbers 21:28 — For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places (בָּמ֥וֹת) of Arnon.
- Numbers 22:41 — And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.
- Numbers 33:52 — Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places (בָּמֹתָ֖ם):
- Deuteronomy 32:13 — He made him ride on the high places (בָּ֣מֳתֵי) of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
- Deuteronomy 33:29 — Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places (בָּמוֹתֵ֥ימוֹ).
- 1 Samuel 9:12 — And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place (בַּבָּמָֽה):
- 1 Samuel 9:13 — As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place (הַבָּמָ֜תָה) to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.
- 1 Samuel 9:14 — And they went up into the city: and when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place (הַבָּמָֽה).
- 1 Samuel 9:19 — And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place (הַבָּמָ֔ה); for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.
- 1 Samuel 9:25 — And when they were come down from the high place (מֵהַבָּמָ֖ה) into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.
- 1 Samuel 10:5 — After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place (מֵֽהַבָּמָ֔ה) with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
- 1 Samuel 10:13 — And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place (הַבָּמָֽה).
- 2 Samuel 1:19 — The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places (בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָ): how are the mighty fallen!
- 2 Samuel 1:25 — How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places (בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָ).
- 2 Samuel 22:34 — He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: and setteth me upon my high places (בָּמוֹתַ֖י).
- 1 Kings 3:2 — Only the people sacrificed in high places (בַּבָּמ֑וֹת), because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
- 1 Kings 3:3 — And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places (בַּבָּמ֔וֹת).
- 1 Kings 3:4 — And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place (הַבָּמָ֣ה): a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
- 1 Kings 12:31 — And he made an house of high places (בָּמ֑וֹת), and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
- 1 Kings 12:32 — And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places (הַבָּמ֖וֹת) which he had made.
- 1 Kings 13:2 — And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places (הַבָּמוֹת֙) that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee.
- 1 Kings 13:32 — For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places (הַבָּמ֔וֹת) which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
- 1 Kings 13:33 — After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places (בָמ֔וֹת): whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
- 1 Kings 13:33 — After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places (בָמֽוֹת).
- 1 Kings 14:23 — For they also built them high places (בָּמ֥וֹת), and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
- 1 Kings 15:14 — But the high places (וְהַבָּמ֖וֹת) were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
- 1 Kings 22:43 — And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places (הַבָּמ֖וֹת) were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
- 1 Kings 22:43 — And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places (בַּבָּמֽוֹת).
- 2 Kings 12:3 — But the high places (הַבָּמ֖וֹת) were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
- 2 Kings 12:3 — But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places (בַּבָּמֽוֹת).
- 2 Kings 14:4 — Howbeit the high places (הַבָּמ֖וֹת) were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
- 2 Kings 14:4 — Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places (בַּבָּמֽוֹת).
- 2 Kings 15:4 — Save that the high places (הַבָּמ֖וֹת) were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
- 2 Kings 15:4 — Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places (בַּבָּמֽוֹת).
- 2 Kings 15:35 — Howbeit the high places (הַבָּמוֹת֙) were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 15:35 — Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places (בַּבָּמ֑וֹת). He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 16:4 — And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places (בַּבָּמ֖וֹת), and on the hills, and under every green tree.
- 2 Kings 17:9 — And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places (בָּמוֹת֙) in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
- 2 Kings 17:11 — And there they burnt incense in all the high places (בָּמ֔וֹת), as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
- 2 Kings 17:29 — Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places (הַבָּמ֗וֹת) which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
- 2 Kings 17:32 — So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places (בָמ֔וֹת), which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
- 2 Kings 17:32 — So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places (הַבָּמֽוֹת).
- 2 Kings 18:4 — He removed the high places (הַבָּמ֗וֹת), and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
- 2 Kings 18:22 — But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places (בָּמֹתָ֣יו) and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
- 2 Kings 21:3 — For he built up again the high places (הַבָּמ֔וֹת) which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
- 2 Kings 23:5 — And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places (בַּבָּמוֹת֙) in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
- 2 Kings 23:8 — And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places (הַבָּמ֗וֹת) where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
- 2 Kings 23:8 — And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places (בָּמ֣וֹת) of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
- 2 Kings 23:9 — Nevertheless the priests of the high places (הַבָּמ֔וֹת) came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.