From Nave’s Topical Bible
Cave
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 19Passages listed
- 10Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- (Used as a dwelling)
- By LotGenesis 19:30
- Elijah1 Kings 19:9
- IsraelitesEzekiel 33:27
- SaintsHebrews 11:38
- Place of refugeJoshua 10:16–27Judges 6:21 Samuel 13:61 Kings 18:41 Kings 18:131 Kings 19:91 Kings 19:13
- Burial placeGenesis 23:9–20Genesis 25:9Genesis 49:29–32Genesis 50:13John 11:38
- Of Adullam1 Samuel 22:12 Samuel 23:131 Chronicles 11:15
- En-gedi1 Samuel 24:3–8
The passages, in Bible order (19)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 19:30
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.
Commentary on Genesis 19:301 voice
(Verse 30.) And Lot went up from Segor and settled in the mountain, and his two daughters with him. For he was afraid to stay in Segor. It is asked why, when he first preferred the mountain of Segor for his escape, and wanted to be saved in it as his dwelling, he now flees from Segor back to the mountain?
Jerome· Hebrew Questions on Genesis, 420Patristic
- Genesis 23:9–20
to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”
Commentary on Genesis 23:9–201 voice
That he may, give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
Commentary on Genesis 25:91 voice
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah,.... Isaac, though the younger brother, is set first, because he was born of the lawful wife of Abraham, the free woman, whereas Ishmael was born of a concubine and a bondwoman; Isaac was heir not only to Abraham's temporal estate, but of the promise made concerning the Messiah, (not so Ishmael,) and was on all accounts the greater man.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 49:29–32
Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
Commentary on Genesis 49:29–321 voice
And he charged them, and said unto them,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 50:13
They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
Commentary on Genesis 50:131 voice
For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan,.... That is, they took care that he was carried there, as he desired to be; for it cannot be thought that they carried him on their shoulders thither, in like manner as the devout men carried Stephen to his burial, Act 8:2. and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, &c. the very place where he chose to be buried, Gen 47:29.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Joshua 10:16–27
Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
Commentary on Joshua 10:16–271 voice
For if the armed host of the Lord was represented by the trumpets of the priests, we may see in Jericho a type of the overthrow of the world by the preaching of the gospel. And to pass over endless details (for it is not my purpose now to unfold all the mysteries of the Old Testament), five kings who previously reigned in the land of promise and opposed the gospel army were overcome in battle with Joshua.
Jerome· Against Jovinianus 1.21, 420Patristic
- Judges 6:2
and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.
Commentary on Judges 6:21 voice
And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Samuel 13:6
Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.
Commentary on 1 Samuel 13:61 voice
12. We are indeed in a narrow place when we are tempted inwardly by unclean spirits and outwardly behold the examples of evil men. Against the internal temptation of evil spirits, therefore, it is well said: "The people were afflicted," and against the outward examples of ungodly men: "They hid themselves." Because the cunning adversary suggests to us pleasant and joyful things to be desired, and he is never better conquered than if, when tempted, we run to the laments of devout prayer.
Gregory the Dialogist· Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 3, 604Patristic
- 1 Samuel 22:1
So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.
Commentary on 1 Samuel 22:11 voice
For if it is a bad thing to flee, it is much worse to persecute. The one party hides himself to escape death, the other persecutes with a desire to kill. It is written in the Scriptures that we ought to flee; but he that seeks to destroy transgresses the law and also is himself the occasion of the other's flight. If then they [the Arians] reproach me with my flight, let them be more ashamed of their own persecution. Let them cease to conspire, and those who flee will immediately cease to do so.
Athanasius of Alexandria· DEFENSE OF HIS FLIGHT 8, 373Patristic
- 1 Samuel 24:3–8
Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.
Commentary on 1 Samuel 24:3–81 voice
Saul, unaware of David's hiding place, also entered the cave in order to take care of his needs, I presume.… Accordingly, this psalm of David is accepted for certain in the name of the Lord; Saul appears as the devil, and the cave becomes this world. The devil, furthermore, does not discharge any good into this world, but only dung and corruption. Then, too, the cave symbolizes this world because its light is very imperfect when compared with the light of the future world, albeit the Lord, on coming into this world as light, brightens it up considerably.
Jerome· HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 52 (PS 141), 420Patristic
- 2 Samuel 23:13
At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
Commentary on 2 Samuel 23:131 voice
And three of the thirty chiefs went down,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 18:4
for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
Commentary on 1 Kings 18:41 voice
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 18:13
Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.
Commentary on 1 Kings 18:131 voice
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord? how I hid one hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? See Gill on 1Ki 18:4, this he said not in a way of ostentation, but to show that it would be very ungenerous and ungrateful, as well as impolitic, to sacrifice such a friend at court to the Lord's prophets as he had been, and might still continue to be.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 19:9
There Elijah entered a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
Commentary on 1 Kings 19:91 voice
Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" After reaching Horeb, the mountain of God, Elijah spent the night in a cave, and on the next day, when he heard the noise of God coming to him, …
Ephrem the Syrian· ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 19:9, 373Patristic
- 1 Kings 19:13
When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
Commentary on 1 Kings 19:131 voice
"When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?' He answered, 'I have been very zealous for …
Ephrem the Syrian· ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 19:13, 373Patristic
- 1 Chronicles 11:15
Three of the thirty chief men went down to David, to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.