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Title: Modern research as illustrating the Bible
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Driver, S. R. (Samuel Rolles), 1846-1914
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: London : Pub. for the British academy by Humphrey Milford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rifice and worship at such a place. Afterwards, however, onaccount of the heathen rites in vogue at many of these high places,,they were proscribed by legislators and prophets; and Hezekiah andJosiah both exerted themselves to abolish them. The high places ofIsrael and Judah are often alluded to in the books of Kings and theprophets : we may infer indeed from the terms in which they are spokenof that every city and village had one (2 Kings xvii. 9, 11; xxiii. 8;Ezek. vi. 6). We know also from Isaiahs prophecy on Moab (xv. 2;xvi. 12) that there were high places in Moab: the high place whichMesha, in his inscription (c. 800 b.c), states that he made forChemosh, the national deity of Moab, may be one of those alludedto by Isaiah. We could infer from the Old Testament that theywere sacred places, with altars J on which sacrifice was offered,- and 1 See 1 Kings iii. 4 (at Gibeon) ; Hos. x. 8 (at Bethel) ; 2 Kings xxiii. 15. 2 K/.ck. xx. 28 (seer. 2!l) ; 1 Kinjrs iii. 2 ; .wii. 4.!. &C.
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Plan of Rock-cut High Place above Petra From Nielsen, Die altarabische Mond/religion mirf </i. I?fi also in the Biblical World, January, 1901, Frontispiece). To face p. 61) HIGH PLACES IN THE O.T. AND AT PETRA 61 also, at least in some cases, with buildings for the sacred meals, likethe one of which Samuel and Saul partook, and for the priests to livein,1 and shrines for the images:- hut little more was known aboutthem. Within the last few years, however, several such high places havebeen discovered. The first to be discovered was not in Palestine,but on the hills above Petra, the romantically situated capital of theancient Edom.4 Petra lies in an amphitheatre of red sandstone rocks,the sides of which, rising almost perpendicularly from the plain, arehigh up simply honeycombed with caves, used anciently, some asdwellings, others as tombs. It is accessible, practically, only fromthe east, through the narrow gorge called the Sik, about 1-;-

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