FROM TORREY’S TOPICAL TEXTBOOK (1897)

Torrey’s Topical Textbook (1897) — public domain, printed whole.

- 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