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Caves

Natural - Heb 11:38

Artificial - Jud 6:2

FOUND IN THE

• Open fields
- Ge 23:20
• Rocks
- Isa 2:19

WERE USED AS

• Dwelling-places
- Ge 19:30
• Places of concealment
- 1Sa 13:6; 14:11; 1Ki 18:4; Heb 11:38
• Resting places
- 1Sa 24:3; 1Ki 19:9
• Burial places
- Ge 23:19; Joh 11:38
• Haunts of robbers
- Jer 7:11; Mt 21:13
• Hiding placed of wild beasts
- Na 2:12

Often capacious - 1Sa 22:1,2; 24:3

Afford no protection from the judgments of God - Isa 2:19; Eze 33:27; Re 6:15

MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Adullam
- 1Sa 22:1
• Engedi
- 1Sa 23:29; 24:1,3
• Machpelah
- Ge 23:9
• Makkedah
- Jos 10:16,17
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