18 Bible Verses about Escaping To Mountains

The hilltop shrines of Bethaven, where the people of Israel worship idols, will be destroyed. Thorns and weeds will grow up over their altars. The people will call out to the mountains: 'Hide us! And to the hills, cover us!'

Then they will say to the mountains fall on us and to the hills cover us.

The kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the military commanders, and the mighty men, and every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. They said to the mountains and rocks: Fall on us, and hide us from the presence of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

Run for your lives! The angels warned. Do not stop and do not look behind you! Escape to the mountains, or you will die.

([Psalm of David]) I have taken refuge in Jehovah. How can you say to me: Flee to your mountain like a bird?

The Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen (tar) pits. As the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them. The rest fled to the hill country.

The world was not worthy of them! They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

Micaiah answered: I can see the army of Israel scattered over the hills like sheep without a shepherd. Jehovah said: These men have no leader. Let them go home in peace.

My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered throughout the entire earth. No one searched or looked for them.

Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; your nobles are at rest. Your people are scattered upon the mountains, and there is none to gather them.

You have been so kind to me and saved my life, and you have granted me such mercy. But I cannot go to the mountains. Disaster would catch up to me there, and I would soon die.

Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar. So he and his two daughters moved up into the hills and lived in a cave.

She said: Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers return and afterward go your way.

They went to the mountain and stayed there three days until the pursuers returned. The pursuers looked for them everywhere but did not find them.

The Midianites were very oppressive over Israel. So much so that the people of Israel hid from them in caves and other safe places in the mountains.

you in Judea flee to the mountains;

When you see the unclean thing that makes desolation standing where he ought not (let the reader use discernment), then let them that are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the midst of her leave. And let no one from the country enter.