Psalms 104:18
The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.
BSB
ASV
The high mountains are for the wild goats; The rocks are a refuge for the conies.
KJV
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
The high mountains for the stags. This animal kills serpents and eats them. Therefore it fittingly dwells in the mountains, this one that slays the intelligible serpent — the one who was wiser in paradise than all the beasts, who deceived Eve. The rock is a refuge for the hedgehogs. He who is timid has the rock as his refuge: and the rock is Christ.
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats,.... Who have their name in Hebrew (d) from their climbing and ascending them. What we commonly call "a wild goose chase" should be expressed "a wild goat's chase"; for not geese, but goats, are chased; and when they are, they flee to the hills for refuge. Hence they are sometimes called the wild goats of the rocks, Job 39:1, and sometimes the rocks are called from them the rocks of wild goats, 1Sa 24:
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Proverbs 30:26the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;
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The rock badger, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Job 39:1“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?
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The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”
So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
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Deuteronomy 14:7But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger.
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They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
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1 Samuel 24:2So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
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So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.
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Leviticus 11:5The rock badger, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
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the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;