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The men of Israel realized they had a problem because their army was hard pressed. So the army hid in caves, thickets, cliffs, strongholds,[a] and cisterns.

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  1. 1 Samuel 13:6 tn Or perhaps “vaults.” This rare term also occurs in Judg 9:46, 49. Cf. KJV “high places”; ASV “coverts”; NAB “caverns”; NASB “cellars”; NIV, NCV, TEV “pits”; NRSV, NLT “tombs.”

11 When they[a] made themselves known to the Philistine garrison, the Philistines said, “Look! The Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they hid themselves.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 14:11 tn Heb “the two of them.”

When Jezebel was killing[a] the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah took 100 prophets and hid them in two caves in two groups of fifty. He also brought them food and water.)

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  1. 1 Kings 18:4 tn Heb “cutting off.”

38 (the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

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