Hebrews 11:38

Webster's Bible (1833)

(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

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  • 1 Kgs 18:4 : 4 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.)
  • 1 Kgs 19:9 : 9 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?
  • 1 Sam 22:1 : 1 David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
  • 1 Sam 24:1-3 : 1 It happened, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi. 2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats. 3 He came to the sheep pens by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave.
  • 1 Sam 26:1 : 1 The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?
  • 1 Kgs 18:13 : 13 Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].
  • 2 Kgs 23:25-29 : 25 Like him was there no king before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him. 26 Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn't turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him. 27 Yahweh said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there. 28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 29 In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and [Pharaoh Necoh] killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
  • Ps 142:1-7 : 1 > I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy. 2 I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles. 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. In the way in which I walk, They have hidden a snare for me. 4 Look on my right, and see; For there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul. 5 I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living." 6 Listen to my cry, For I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me. 7 Bring my soul out of prison, That I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, For you will be good to me.
  • 1 Kgs 14:12-13 : 12 Arise you therefore, get you to your house: [and] when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die. 13 All Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
  • 1 Kgs 17:3 : 3 Get you hence, and turn you eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
  • 1 Sam 23:15 : 15 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.
  • 1 Sam 23:19 : 19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
  • 1 Sam 23:23 : 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come you again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.

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  • Heb 11:32-37
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    32 What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;

    33 who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

    34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and turned to flight armies of aliens.

    35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

    36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

    37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

  • Job 30:5-7
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    5 They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;

    6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, And in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

    7 Among the bushes they bray; And under the nettles they are gathered together.

  • Heb 11:39-40
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    39 These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise,

    40 God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

  • Heb 11:13-14
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    13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen{TR adds "and being convinced of"} them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

    14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking after a country of their own.

  • 20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned{TR adds "or shot with an arrow" [see Exodus 19:12-13]};"

  • 5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

  • 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

  • 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

  • Heb 3:17-19
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    17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

    18 To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

    19 We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

  • 3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

  • Rev 6:15-16
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    15 The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.

    16 They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

  • 11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion.

  • 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

  • 2 For by this, the elders obtained testimony.

  • Heb 11:8-10
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    8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

    9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

    10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

  • Heb 11:25-26
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    25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;

    26 accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

  • 6 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.

  • 21 To go into the caverns of the rocks, And into the clefts of the ragged rocks, From before the terror of Yahweh, And from the glory of his majesty, When he arises to shake the earth mightily.

  • 18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, tempest,

  • 19 Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, And into the holes of the earth, From before the terror of Yahweh, And from the glory of his majesty, When he arises to shake the earth mightily.

  • 8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

  • 28 He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

  • 6 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

  • 18 For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

  • Heb 13:13-14
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    13 Let us therefore go forth to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

    14 For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

  • 17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

  • 11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

  • 2 The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.

  • 12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

  • 31 and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.

  • 11 behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

  • 8 and, "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, whereunto also they were appointed.

  • 38 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,

  • 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, And grieved him in the desert!