Thematic Bible: Used as
Thematic Bible
Rocks » Used as » Places of safety in danger
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves and in thickets and in rocks and in high places and in pits.
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth, because of the terrible presence of the LORD and because of the glory of his majesty when he shall arise to smite the earth.
And the kings of the earth and the princes and the rich and the captains and the strong and every slave and every free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains
Behold, I send many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after, will I send many hunters, and they shall hunt 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 floods of the mountains and embrace the rock for want of a covering.
For want and famine they walked alone; fleeing into solitude, to the dark place, desolate and waste.
Rocks » Used as » Altars
So Manoah took a kid with a present and sacrificed it upon a rock unto the LORD, and the angel did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes and lay them upon this rock and pour out the broth. And he did so. Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.
Rocks » Used as » Places of observation
For from the top of the rocks I have seen him, and from the hills I beheld him; behold, a people that shall dwell in confidence and shall not be counted among the Gentiles.
And the LORD continued saying, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock;
Rocks » Used as » Places for idolatrous worship
inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?