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Hebrews 11:38

SufferingThe stranger and outcastFaith

36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

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BSB
The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
KJV
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
WEB
of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
ASV
(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.
DARBY
(of whom the world was not worthy,) wandering in deserts and mountains, and [in] dens and caverns of the earth.
BLB
of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes of the earth.
ÅB
- verden var dem ikke verd - de vanket om i utørkener og fjell og huler og jordkløfter.
OTB
som verden ikke var verdig til—vandret i ørkener og fjell, og i huler og hull i bakken.
B1930
- verden var dem ikke verd - de vanket om i utørkener og fjell og huler og jordkløfter.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 1 Kings 18:4

    For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

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  • 1 Samuel 22:1

    David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him.

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  • 1 Kings 19:9

    And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?

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  • Isaiah 57:1

    The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

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  • 1 Samuel 24:1–3

    And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.

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  • 1 Kings 18:13

    Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

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  • Psalms 142:1–7

    I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.

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  • 1 Samuel 26:1

    And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?

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