1 Samuel 13:6

New American Bible - revised edition

When the soldiers saw they were in danger because the army was hardpressed, they hid themselves in caves, thickets, rocks, caverns, and cisterns.

Cross References

Judges 6:2

so that Midian held Israel subject. From fear of Midian the Israelites made dens in the mountains, the caves, and the strongholds.

Hebrews 11:38

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered about in deserts and on mountains, in caves and in crevices in the earth.

Philippians 1:23

I am caught between the two. I long to depart this life and be with Christ, [for] that is far better.

Isaiah 42:22

This is a people plundered and despoiled, all of them trapped in holes, hidden away in prisons. They are taken as plunder, with no one to rescue them, as spoil, with no one to say, “Give back!”

2 Samuel 24:14

David answered Gad: “I am greatly distressed. But let us fall into the hand of God, whose mercy is great, rather than into human hands.”

1 Samuel 24:3

So Saul took three thousand of the best men from all Israel and went in search of David and his men in the direction of the wild goat crags.

1 Samuel 23:19

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

1 Samuel 14:11

When the two of them came into the view of the Philistine outpost, the Philistines remarked, “Look, some Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have been hiding.”

Judges 20:41

Then when the men of Israel wheeled about, the men of Benjamin were thrown into confusion, for they realized that disaster was closing in on them.

Judges 10:9

The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin and the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was in great distress.

Joshua 8:20

By the time the army of Ai looked back, the smoke from the city was going up to the heavens. Escape in any direction was impossible, because the Israelites retreating toward the wilderness now turned on their pursuers;

1 Samuel 7:7

When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had gathered at Mizpah, their leaders went up against Israel. Hearing this, the Israelites became afraid of the Philistines

1 Samuel 13:15

Then Samuel set out from Gilgal and went his own way; but what was left of the army went up after Saul to meet the soldiers, going from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul then counted the soldiers he had with him, about six hundred.

1 Samuel 14:22

Likewise, all the Israelites who were hiding in the hill country of Ephraim, hearing that the Philistines were fleeing, kept after them in the battle.

Jeremiah 41:9

The cistern into which Ishmael threw all the bodies of the men he had killed was the large one King Asa made to defend himself against Baasha, king of Israel; Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, filled this cistern with the slain.

Ezekiel 33:27

Say this to them: Thus says the Lord God: As I live, those among the ruins shall fall by the sword; those in the open field I have made food for the wild beasts; and those in rocky hideouts and caves shall die by the plague.

1 Samuel 31:7

When the Israelites on the slope of the valley and those along the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. Then the Philistines came and lived in those cities.