Hebrews 11:38

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The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts, and on mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.

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  • 1 Kgs 18:4 : 4 When Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets, hidden them in two caves in groups of fifty, and provided them with bread and water.
  • 1 Kgs 19:9 : 9 There he went into a cave and spent the night. The word of the LORD came to him, saying, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?'
  • 1 Sam 22:1 : 1 David left from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's household heard about it, they went down to him there.
  • 1 Sam 24:1-3 : 1 David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En-gedi. 2 When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, 'David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.' 3 So Saul chose three thousand elite men from all Israel and went to search for David and his men near the rocks of the wild goats.
  • 1 Sam 26:1 : 1 Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, "Isn't David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, which overlooks the wilderness?"
  • 1 Kgs 18:13 : 13 Has it not been reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred of the LORD's prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with bread and water.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; faithful people are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.
  • 2 Kgs 23:25-29 : 25 There was no king like him before, who turned to the LORD with all his heart, soul, and strength, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him. 26 However, the LORD did not turn from the fierce anger that burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger. 27 The LORD said, 'I will also remove Judah from my presence as I removed Israel. I will reject this city, Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple about which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’' 28 The rest of the acts of Josiah, all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 29 During his reign, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went to fight against the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah marched out to meet him, but Necho killed him at Megiddo when they faced each other.
  • Ps 142:1-7 : 1 A contemplative poem of David, when he was in the cave, a prayer. 2 I cry out to the LORD with my voice; with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD. 3 I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my troubles to Him. 4 When my spirit grows faint within me, You know my path. In the way where I walk, they have hidden a trap for me. 5 Look to the right and see—no one recognizes me; there is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul. 6 I cry to You, LORD; I say, 'You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.' 7 Listen to my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.
  • 1 Kgs 14:12-13 : 12 Now, get up and go back to your house. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die. 13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave. He is the only one in whom the LORD, the God of Israel, found something good within the house of Jeroboam.
  • 1 Kgs 17:3 : 3 "Go from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan."
  • 1 Sam 23:15 : 15 When David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life, he stayed in the Wilderness of Ziph, in the woods.
  • 1 Sam 23:19 : 19 The Ziphites went to Saul at Gibeah and said, 'Isn't David hiding among us in the strongholds in the woods, on the hill of Hachilah, south of Jeshimon?'
  • 1 Sam 23:23 : 23 Carefully identify all the hiding places where he could be staying and return to me with reliable information. Then I will come with you, and if he is indeed in the land, I will search for him among all the clans of Judah.

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