'Rock' in the Bible

Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.

That he will give me the hollow in the rock named Machpelah, which is his property at the end of his field; let him give it to me for its full price as a resting-place for my dead among you.

No, my lord, I will give you the field with the hollow in the rock; before all the children of my people will I give it to you for a resting-place for your dead.

So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,

Then Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, that is, Hebron in the land of Canaan

And the field and the hollow rock were handed over to Abraham as his property by the children of Heth.

And Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, put him to rest in the hollow rock of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, near Mamre;

And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place.

In the rock in the field which was got for a price from the people of Heth.

For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre.

See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel.

And the Lord said, See, there is a place near me, and you may take your place on the rock:

And when my glory goes by, I will put you in a hole in the rock, covering you with my hand till I have gone past:

And the rock-badger, for the same reason, is unclean to you.

Take the rod, you and Aaron, your brother, and make all the people come together, and before their eyes give orders to the rock to give out its water; and so make water come out of the rock for them, and give the people and their cattle drink.

Then Moses and Aaron made the people come together in front of the rock, and he said to them, Give ear now, you people whose hearts are turned from the Lord; are we to get water for you out of the rock?

And lifting up his hand, Moses gave the rock two blows with his rod: and water came streaming out, and the people and their cattle had drink enough.

And looking on the Kenites he went on with his story and said, Strong is your living-place, and your secret place is safe in the rock.

Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.

He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;

But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.

You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.

How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?

For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.

And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?

But these five kings went in flight secretly to a hole in the rock at Makkedah.

And word was given to Joshua that the five kings had been taken in a hole in the rock at Makkedah.

Then Joshua said, Take away the stones from the mouth of the hole in the rock, and make those five kings come out to me.

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.

Make an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered way and take the ox and make a burned offering with the wood of the holy tree which has been cut down.

And they took the two chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they put Oreb to death at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they put to death at the place of the grape-crushing in Zeeb, and they went after Midian; but the heads of Oreb and Zeeb they took across Jordan to Gideon.

So Manoah took the young goat with its meal offering, offering it on the rock to the Lord, who did strange things.

And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.

Then three thousand of the men of Judah went down to the crack of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Is it not clear to you that the Philistines are our rulers? What is this you have done to us? And he said to them, I only did to them as they did to me.

And they said, No; we will take you and give you up into their hands, but truly we will not put you to death. So knotting two new cords round him they took him up from the rock.

Then God made a crack in the hollow rock in Lehi and water came out of it; and after drinking, his spirit came back to him and he was strong again; so that place was named En-hakkore; it is in Lehi to this day.

And turning, they went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land: and on the highways five thousand of them were cut off by the men of Israel, who, pushing on hard after them to Geba, put to death two thousand more.

But six hundred men, turning back, went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land, and were living on the rock of Rimmon for four months.

And all the meeting sent to the men of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, offering them peace.

No other is holy as the Lord, for there is no other God but you: there is no Rock like our God.

Now between the narrow roads over the mountains by which Jonathan was making his way to the Philistines' forces, there was a sharp overhanging rock on one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: one was named Bozez and the other Seneh.

The one rock went up on the north in front of Michmash and the other on the south in front of Geba.

And Saul and his men went in search of him. And David had word of it, so he came down to the rock in the waste land of Maon. And Saul, hearing of this, went after David into the waste land of Maon.

And on the way he came to a place where sheep were kept, where there was a hollow in the rock; and Saul went in for a private purpose. Now David and his men were in the deepest part of the hollow.

And after that David came out of the hollow rock, and crying after Saul said, My lord the king. And when Saul gave a look back, David went down on his face and gave him honour.

And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took haircloth, placing it on the rock as a bed for herself, from the start of the grain-cutting till rain came down on them from heaven; and she did not let the birds of the air come near them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.

And he said, The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour, even mine;

My God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my safe place; my saviour, who keeps me safe from the violent man.

For who is God but the Lord? and who is a Rock but our God?

The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured:

The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,

For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.)

Has my lord not had word of what I did when Jezebel was putting the Lord's prophets to death? how I kept a hundred of them in a secret hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water?

And there he went into a hole in the rock for the night; then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?

And three of the thirty went down to David, to the rock, into the strong place of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim.

And ten thousand more the children of Israel took living, and made them go up to the top of the rock, pushing them down from the top of the rock so that their bodies were broken by the fall.

And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.

And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!

They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.

Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.

He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.

When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.

Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.

The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?

The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.

For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.

My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

Let your ear be turned to me; take me quickly out of danger; be my strong Rock, my place of strength where I may be safe.

For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.

He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.

I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.

He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.

He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.

In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.

Be my strong Rock, the strong place of my salvation; for you are my Rock, and my safe place.

My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.

He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people?

In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.

I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.

He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.

But the Lord is my safe resting-place; my God is the Rock where I am safe.

O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.

His hand made the rock open, and the waters came streaming out; they went down through the dry places like a river.

Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl.

Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.

And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.

And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.