sacrifices on them, 1 S 9:12–25 ; 10:5 , 13 ( הבמה for הביתה We D r). The custom continued in the reign of Solomon, but Gibeon was הגדולה הבמה 1 K 3:2–4 cf. 1 Ch 16:39 21:29 2 Ch 1: 3, 13 . High places of Baal were also used Nu 22:41 ( E ) Je 19:5 32:3 5; of Moab Is 15:2 ; 16:12 Je 48:35 ( cf. MI ²⁷); these must be demolished Nu 33:52 ( J ). Solomon built במות (platforms or chaples) to Chemosh and Milkom on the Mt. of Evil Counsel opposite Jerusalem 1 K 11:7 : Jeroboam made temples on the ancient high places of Dan and Bethel 1 K 12:31 , 32 2 Ch 11:1 5; they are called במות און Ho 10: 8, במות ישׂחק Am 7: 9: the kings of Israel built במות

and בתי הבמות in all their cities 2 K 17:9 , and the people worshipped there 2 K 17:11 ; these were also used by the mixed population after the exile of Israel 2 K 17:29 , 32 ^(×2): these various idolatrous high places were first destroyed by Josiah 1 K 13:2 , 32 , 38 2 K 23:5–20 2 Ch 34: 3. The worship of Yahweh on high places continued in Judah until the exile 1 K 22:44 2 K 15:3 5; the sanctity code predicts that Yahweh will destroy them Lv 26:30 ; they were regarded as the reason for the rejection of Shiloh ψ 78:58 . The complier of Kings, writing from the point of view

of the Deut. code, complains לֹא סָרוּ רַק הַבָּמֹות 2 K 12: 4; 14:4 ; 15:4 , 35 cf. 2 Ch 15:1 7; 20:33 , and praises the few pious kings who destroyed them. a. Rehoboam built במות with מצבות & אשׂרים on every high hill and under every green tree 1 K 14:23 . b. Asa did not remove the high places 1 K 15:14 ( 2 Ch 14:2 , 4 is incorrect unless במות בעל ). c. Jehoshaphat in his reform on the basis of the covenant code did not remove them 1 K 22:44 ( עֹוד הֵסִיר אֶת־הַבָּמֹות 2 Ch 17:16 is doubtless incorrect, possibly read מצבות ); Jehoram, his son, made high places in the cities of Judah 2 Ch 21:11 Ö É ; not mountains ˜ ); and Ahaz

sacrificed on high places on the hills and under every green tree and in every city of Judah 2 K 16:4 2 Ch 28: 4, 25 ; cf. Mi 1:5 (read חטאת ? so Ö ã å Che al. ; yet cf. JBL 1890, 73 f. ) d. Hezekiah removed them 2 K 18:4 , 22 2 Ch 31:1 32:12 Is 36: 7; but Manasseh rebuilt them 2 K 21:3 2 Ch 33: 3, 19 , and the people continued to sacrifice thereon to Yahweh 2 Ch 33:17 . e. Josiah, in his reform, based on the Deut. code, defiled them and brake them down from Geba to Beersheba 2 K 23:5 , 8 , 9 ; but subsequently there were התפת במות in the valley of Ben Hinnom Je 7:31 , and במות throughout Judah Je 17:3 cf. Ez 6: 3, 6 ; 20:29 (questioned by Ew & Co ). 4. funereal mound (?) Ez 43:7 ( Thes , but in their high places AV RV in

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