Hebrews 11:38 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁸ of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains and in caves and holes in the ground.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ [Men] of whom the world was not worthy–roaming over the desolate places and the mountains, and [living] in caves and caverns and holes of the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

Common English Bible

³⁸ The world didn’t deserve them. They wandered around in deserts, mountains, caves, and holes in the ground.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ Of them, the world was not worthy, wandering in solitude on mountains, in the caves and caverns of the earth.

Hebrews 11:38 Cross References

1 Kings 18:4

when Jezebel was killing off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets, hid them fifty to a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)

1 Kings 19:9

At that place he came to a cave and spent the night there. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

1 Samuel 22:1

David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; when his brothers and all his father’s house heard of it, they went down there to him.

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perish, and no one considers why; the devout are taken away, while no one understands that it is due to evil that the righteous are taken away.

1 Kings 18:13

Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred of the Lord’s prophets fifty to a cave and provided them with bread and water?

1 Kings 17:3

“Go from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Wadi Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.

1 Samuel 26:1

Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “David is in hiding on the hill of Hachilah, which is opposite Jeshimon.”

1 Samuel 23:23

Look around and learn all the hiding places where he lurks and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you, and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

1 Samuel 23:19

Then some Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “David is hiding among us in the strongholds of Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshimon.

1 Samuel 23:15

David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh when he learned that Saul had come out to seek his life.

Judges 6:2

The hand of Midian prevailed over Israel, and because of Midian the Israelites provided for themselves hiding places in the mountains, caves and strongholds.

Jeremiah 41:9

Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men whom he had struck down alongside Gedaliah was the one that King Asa had made for defense against King Baasha of Israel; Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled that cistern with those whom he had killed.