| − | [[File:High Place.jpg|thumb|300px|right|An authentic high place, excavated at Tel Dan in northern Israel near Lake Chennerith/Tiberias/Sea of Galilee]]A '''high place''' ([[Hebrew]] ''bamah'', plural ''bamot''<ref name=Brit1911>Authors unknown, "[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/High_Place Entry for High Place]," ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 1911. Retrieved April 18, 2007, from [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Main_Page LoveToKnow 1911] (a site that reproduces the 1911 ''Britannica'', now in the [[public domain]]).</ref>) was a site, at the top of any high hill, that served usually as a place of worship of the [[Canaan]]ite gods [[Baal]] and [[Asherah]].<ref name=Holman>Chad Brand, Charles Draper, Archie England, ''et al.'', eds. ''The Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary''. Nashville, Tennessee: Holman Bible Publishers, 2003, ISBN 0805428364, pp. 761-2</ref><ref name=Brit2007>Authors unknown. "[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9040403 Entry for High Place]." ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2007, from ''Encyclopædia Britannica Online.''</ref> | + | [[File:High Place.jpg|thumb|300px|right|An authentic high place, excavated at Tel Dan in northern Israel near Lake Chennerith/Tiberias/Sea of Galilee]]A '''high place''' ([[Hebrew]] ''bamah'', plural ''bamot''<ref name=Brit1911>Authors unknown, "[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/High_Place Entry for High Place]," ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 1911. Retrieved April 18, 2007, from [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Main_Page LoveToKnow 1911] (a site that reproduces the 1911 ''Britannica'', now in the [[public domain]]).</ref>) was a site, at the top of any high hill, that served usually as a place of worship of the [[Canaan]]ite gods [[Baal]] and [[Asherah]].<ref name=Holman>Chad Brand, Charles Draper, Archie England, ''et al.'', eds. ''The Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary''. Nashville, Tennessee: Holman Bible Publishers, 2003, ISBN 0805428364, pp. 761-2</ref><ref name=Brit2007>Authors unknown. "[https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9040403 Entry for High Place]." ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2007, from ''Encyclopædia Britannica Online.''</ref> |