Lexicon :: Strong's H5553 - selaʿ

“Take the staff and assemble the community. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will yield its water. You will bring out water for them from the rock and provide drink for the community and their livestock.”

Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels! Must we bring water out of this rock for you? ”

Next he saw the Kenites and proclaimed his poem:

Your dwelling place is enduring;

your nest is set in the cliffs.

He made him ride on the heights of the land

and eat the produce of the field.

He nourished him with honey from the rock

and oil from flinty rock,

The territory of the Amorites extended from the Scorpions’ Ascent, that is from Sela upward.

The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat with the unleavened bread, put it on this stone, and pour the broth on it.” So he did that.

He tore them limb from limb[fn] and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.

Then three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Don’t you realize that the Philistines rule us? What have you done to us? ”

“I have done to them what they did to me,” he answered.[fn]

“No,” they said,[fn] “we won’t kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they tied him up with two new ropes and led him away from the rock.

Then Benjamin turned and fled toward the wilderness to Rimmon Rock, and Israel killed five thousand men on the highways. They overtook them at Gidom and struck two thousand more dead.

But six hundred men escaped into the wilderness to Rimmon Rock and stayed there four months.

The whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjaminites who were at Rimmon Rock.

The men of Israel saw that they were in trouble because the troops were in a difficult situation. They hid in caves, in thickets, among rocks, and in holes and cisterns.

There were sharp columns[fn] of rock on both sides of the pass that Jonathan intended to cross to reach the Philistine garrison. One was named Bozez and the other Seneh;

and Saul and his men went to look for him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. Saul heard of this and pursued David there.

He said:

The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer,

Then he said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the LORD’s presence.”

At that moment, the LORD passed by. A great and mighty wind was tearing at the mountains and was shattering cliffs before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

and the Judahites captured ten thousand alive. They took them to the top of a cliff where they threw them off, and all of them were dashed to pieces.

You provided bread from heaven for their hunger;

you brought them water from the rock for their thirst.

You told them to go in and possess the land

you had sworn[fn] to give them.

Do you know when mountain goats give birth?

Have you watched the deer in labor?

It lives on a cliff where it spends the night;

its stronghold is on a rocky crag.

The LORD is my rock,

my fortress, and my deliverer,

my God, my rock where I seek refuge,

my shield and the horn of my salvation,

my stronghold.

For you are my rock and my fortress;

you lead and guide me

for your name’s sake.

He brought me up from a desolate[fn] pit,

out of the muddy clay,

and set my feet on a rock,

making my steps secure.

I will say to God, my rock,

“Why have you forgotten me?

Why must I go about in sorrow

because of the enemy’s oppression? ”

Be a rock of refuge for me,

where I can always go.

Give the command to save me,

for you are my rock and fortress.

He brought streams out of the stone

and made water flow down like rivers.

The high mountains are for the wild goats;

the cliffs are a refuge for hyraxes.

Happy is he who takes your little ones

and dashes them against the rocks.

When their rulers[fn] will be thrown off

the sides of a cliff,

the people[fn] will listen to my words,

for they are pleasing.

hyraxes are not a mighty people,

yet they make their homes in the cliffs;

My dove, in the clefts of the rock,

in the crevices of the cliff,

let me see your face,[fn]

let me hear your voice;

for your voice is sweet,

and your face is lovely.

They will go into the caves of the rocks

and the crevices in the cliffs,

away from the terror of the LORD

and from his majestic splendor,

when he rises to terrify the earth.

All of them will come and settle

in the steep ravines, in the clefts of the rocks,

in all the thornbushes, and in all the water holes.

“What are you doing here? Who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here, carving your tomb on the height and cutting a resting place for yourself out of rock?

His rock[fn] will pass away because of fear,

and his officers will be afraid because of the signal flag.

This is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Each will be like a shelter from the wind,

a refuge from the rain,

like flowing streams in a dry land

and the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.

he will dwell on the heights;

his refuge will be the rocky fortresses,

his food provided, his water assured.

who burn with lust among the oaks,

under every green tree,

who slaughter children in the wadis

below the clefts of the rocks?

LORD, don’t your eyes look for faithfulness?

You have struck them, but they felt no pain.

You finished them off,

but they refused to accept discipline.

They made their faces harder than rock,

and they refused to return.

“Take the underwear that you bought and are wearing,[fn] and go at once to the Euphrates[fn] and hide it in a rocky crevice.”

“I am about to send for many fishermen” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,

“Is not my word like fire” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“and like a hammer that pulverizes rock?

Abandon the towns! Live in the cliffs,

residents of Moab!

Be like a dove

that nests inside the mouth of a cave.

As to the terror you cause,[fn]

your arrogant heart has deceived you.

You who live in the clefts of the rock,[fn]

you who occupy the mountain summit,

though you elevate your nest like the eagles,

even from there I will bring you down.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Look, I am against you, devastating mountain.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

You devastate the whole earth.

I will stretch out my hand against you,

roll you down from the cliffs,

and turn you into a charred mountain.

“For the blood she shed[fn] is still within her.

She put it out on the bare rock;

she didn’t pour it on the ground

to cover it with dust.

“They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and turn her into a bare rock.