Thematic Bible: Used as
Thematic Bible
Rocks » Used as » Places of safety in danger
When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, (for the people were troubled,) they took cover in cracks in the hillsides and in the woods and in rocks and holes and hollows.
And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.
And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains;
See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Rocks » Used as » Places for shelter by the poor in their distress
They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.
They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.
Rocks » Used as » Altars
So Manoah took the young goat with its meal offering, offering it on the rock to the Lord, who did strange things.
And the angel of God said to him, Take the meat and the unleavened cakes and put them down on the rock over there, draining out the soup over them. And he did so. Then the angel of the Lord put out the stick which was in his hand, touching the meat and the cakes with the end of it; and a flame came up out of the rock, burning up the meat and the cakes: and the angel of the Lord was seen no longer.
Rocks » Used as » Places of observation
From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.
And the Lord said, See, there is a place near me, and you may take your place on the rock:
Rocks » Used as » Places for idolatrous worship
You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?