Before there was no one place to worship or a place that had a perceived higher religious meaning. With the building of the Temple, there became an authority on religious matters. Therefore, the fact that priests in Jerusalem had little control over the High Places out in the country led to them to believe that practices in use at the High Places could be heterodox or idolatrous. This led to an effort in Deuteronomist theology to centralize worship at the Temple in Jerusalem before King Hezekiah or King Josiah. Biblical texts also started to connect High Places with cultic practices devoted to the Canaanite deities instead of accepted Yahwistic
Before there was no one place to worship or a place that had a perceived higher religious meaning. With the building of the Temple, there became an authority on religious matters. Therefore, the fact that priests in Jerusalem had little control over the High Places out in the country led to them to believe that practices in use at the High Places could be heterodox or idolatrous. This led to an effort in Deuteronomist theology to centralize worship at the Temple in Jerusalem before King Hezekiah or King Josiah. Biblical texts also started to connect High Places with cultic practices devoted to the Canaanite deities instead of accepted Yahwistic