15 occurrences

'Cliff' in the Bible

Then he looked on the Kenites and uttered this oracle: "Your dwelling place seems strong, and your nest is set on a rocky cliff.

Verse ConceptsNestsWise Proverbs

He struck them down and defeated them. Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

Verse ConceptsCavesThighs

Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?" He said to them, "I have only done to them what they have done to me."

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftRulersThree Thousand And UpRepaying Evil For Evil

They said to him, "We promise! We will only take you prisoner and hand you over to them. We promise not to kill you." They tied him up with two brand new ropes and led him up from the cliff.

Verse ConceptsUnusedTwo Other ThingsTying Up

The rest turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites caught five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

Verse ConceptsTwo ThousandFive ThousandOvertaking

Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.

Verse ConceptsSix To Seven HundredTwo To Four MonthsIsrael FleeingSurvivors Of IsraelSix Hundred And Above

The entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed.

Now there was a steep cliff on each side of the pass through which Jonathan intended to go to reach the Philistine garrison. One cliff was named Bozez, the other Seneh.

Verse ConceptsGarrisonsSharpness

The cliff to the north was closer to Micmash, the one to the south closer to Geba.

Three of the thirty leaders went down to David at the rocky cliff at the cave of Adullam, while a Philistine force was camped in the Valley of Rephaim.

Verse ConceptsEncampmentsCavesValleysThirtyPeople In CavesCaves As Places Of Refuge

The men of Judah captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them over. All the captives fell to their death.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Nature OfHorrors Of WarTens Of ThousandsTwelve Beings

They will be thrown down the side of a cliff by their judges. They will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.

What right do you have to be here? What relatives do you have buried here? Why do you chisel out a tomb for yourself here? He chisels out his burial site in an elevated place, he carves out his tomb on a cliff.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheHeightToolsWorldly Ambition Examples

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from a rainstorm; like streams of water in a dry region and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.

Verse ConceptsRocksShadowsStormsThirstWindGod Being Our Hiding PlacePeople As RocksNo WindsBrooksshelterhidingThe Storms Of Life

They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of ChristPersecution Of ChristThrowing PeopleDriving Out ChristPeople Getting Upjumping

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