Thematic Bible: Used as
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Rocks » Used as » Places of safety in danger
When the men of Israel saw that they were in distress (for the people were in difficult circumstances), the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in crags, in tombs, and in pits.
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"They will enter caverns in the rocks and holes in the ground to escape the presence of the terror of the LORD, to escape the splendor of his majesty when he arises to terrify the earth.
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Then the kings of the earth, the important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and all the slaves and free people concealed themselves in caves and among the rocks in the mountains.
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"I'm about to send many fishermen," declares the LORD, "and they'll catch them. Afterwards, I'll send for many hunters and they'll hunt for them on every mountain and hill and in the crevices of the rocks.
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Rocks » Used as » Places for shelter by the poor in their distress
They are wet from mountain rains; without shelter, they cling to a rock.
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Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated.
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They lived in the most dangerous of ravines, in holes in the ground, and among rocks.
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Rocks » Used as » Altars
So Manoah prepared a young goat and a grain offering and offered it on a boulder to the LORD, who kept on performing miracles while Manoah and his wife watched continually.
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The angel, who was God, replied, "Take the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this boulder. Then pour out the broth." So he did that. The angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and unleavened bread. Fire broke out from inside the boulder, consuming the meat and unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished in front of him.
Rocks » Used as » Places of observation
I saw them from the top of the rocks. I watched them from the hills. Truly this is a people that lives by itself and doesn't matter among the nations.
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The LORD said, "Look, there is a place near me where you can stand on the rock;
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Rocks » Used as » Places for idolatrous worship
you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every spreading tree, who slaughter your children in the ravines, under the clefts of the rocks?
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