Thematic Bible: Used as
Thematic Bible
Rocks » Used as » Places of safety in danger
The men of Israel realized they had a problem because their army was hard pressed. So the army hid in caves, thickets, cliffs, strongholds, and cisterns.
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They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the Lord and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.
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Then the kings of the earth, the very important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
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But for now I, the Lord, say: "I will send many enemies who will catch these people like fishermen. After that I will send others who will hunt them out like hunters from all the mountains, all the hills, and the crevices in the rocks.
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Rocks » Used as » Places for shelter by the poor in their distress
They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.
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gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.
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so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.
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Rocks » Used as » Altars
Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord. The Lord's messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.
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God's messenger said to him, "Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock, and pour out the broth." Gideon did as instructed. The Lord's messenger touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of his staff. Fire flared up from the rock and consumed the meat and unleavened bread. The Lord's messenger then disappeared.
Rocks » Used as » Places of observation
For from the top of the rocks I see them; from the hills I watch them. Indeed, a nation that lives alone, and it will not be reckoned among the nations.
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The Lord said, "Here is a place by me; you will station yourself on a rock.
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Rocks » Used as » Places for idolatrous worship
you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.
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