1 Samuel 13:6

The men of Israel realized they had a problem because their army was hard pressed. So the army hid in caves, thickets, cliffs, strongholds, ¹  and cisterns.

Ex 14:10-12; Jos 8:20; Jud 6:2; Jud 10:9; Jud 20:41; 1Sa 14:11; 1Sa 23:19; 1Sa 24:3; 2Sa 24:14; Isa 42:22; Php 1:23; Heb 11:38

¹ 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.”