And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.
He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
Howbeit the high places 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.
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.
And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper;
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: