Joshua 10:18
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18 Joshua said, “Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to guard them,
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Matthew 27:66
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66 So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.(A)
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Amos 9:1
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The Destruction of Israel
9 I saw the Lord standing beside[a] the altar, and he said:
Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake
and shatter them on the heads of all the people,[b]
and those who are left I will kill with the sword;
not one of them shall flee away,
not one of them shall escape.(A)
Amos 5:19
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19 as if someone fled from a lion
and was met by a bear
or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall
and was bitten by a snake.(A)
Job 21:30
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30 that the wicked are spared in the day of calamity
and are rescued in the day of wrath?(A)
Joshua 10:22
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22 Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me from the cave.”(A)
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Judges 9:46-49
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46 When all the lords of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the temple of El-berith.(A) 47 Abimelech was told that all the lords of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together. 48 So Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the troops who were with him. Abimelech took an ax in his hand, cut down a bundle of brushwood, and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the troops with him, “What you have seen me do, do quickly, as I have done.”(B) 49 So every one of the troops cut down a bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.
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