Excursions to Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Balbec From the United States Ship Delaware, During Her Recent Cruise / With an Attempt to Discriminate Between Truth and Error in Regard to the Sacred Places of the Holy City

by George Jones

2. Capable of being removed, but not so easily as the groves, altars, &c.—1 Kings xv. 14. 2 Kings xxiii. 13.

3. Were erected in their cities. 2 Chron. xxviii. 25. 2 Kings xvii. 29.

4. And in the country. 2 Chron. xxi. 11. 1 Kings xiv. 23.

5. Had small chapels on the summit. 2 Kings xvii. 29. 1 Kings xiii. 32.

6. And altars for offering sacrifice. 1 Kings iii. 4. Numbers xxii. 36, to end.

7. Also human victims probably. Jer. xix. 5.

8. Seem to have been connected with the worship of the sun. 2 Kings xxi. 3.

9. And with purification by fire. Jer. xxxii. 5.

10. Perhaps also used as places of burial. 2 Kings xxiii. 16. In Isaiah liii. 9. במה is used to signify a grave.

11. Sometimes used as fortifications. Judges v. 18 and 19.