Jeremiah 41:9

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:9

Even now he lies hidden in one of the caves or in one of his other places. And if some of our soldiers should fall at the first attack, whoever hears of it will say, ‘Absalom’s followers have been slaughtered.’

Isaiah 14:19

But you are cast forth without burial, like loathsome carrion, Covered with the slain, with those struck by the sword, a trampled corpse, Going down to the very stones of the pit.

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.

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.

1 Samuel 13:6

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

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.”

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.

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.