Thematic Bible: Were used as
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Caves » Were used as » Places of concealment
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.
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for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
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(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
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Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, "Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves!"
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Caves » Were used as » Haunts of robbers
Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.
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He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"
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Caves » Were used as » Resting places
He came there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
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He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave.
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Caves » Were used as » Burial places
Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
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After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
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Caves » Were used as » Dwelling-places
Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
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Caves » Were used as » Hiding places of wild beasts
The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
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