The rock

The rock

In one forum, another person mocked the idea that a symbol was the same everywhere. Specifically he said that ever rock was not a symbol of Christ. What a challenge. So we pick up the gauntlet and will examine ever instance of the rock in the Bible. The defining scripture of the Rock as Christ was this:

1Co 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

Which refers to this:

Ex 17:6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

05553 סלע rock, crag, cliff

06696 -06698 צור bind, besiege, cramp, rock, cliff

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Rock that followed

Nu 20:8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock <05553> before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock <05553>: so thou s

Nu 20:10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock <05553>, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock <05553>?

Nu 20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock <05553> twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts [also].

2Sa 22:2 And he said, The LORD [is] my rock <05553>, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

Ne 9:15 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock <05553> for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

Ps 78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock <05553>, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Lord called the rock

Ps 18:2 The LORD [is] my rock <05553>, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower.

Ps 31:3 For thou [art] my rock <05553> and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.

Ps 42:9 I will say unto God my rock <05553>, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Ps 71:3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou [art] my rock <05553> and my fortress.

Plausible

Job 39:1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock <05553> bring forth? [or] canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

Ps 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock <05553>, [and] established my goings.

Jer 23:29 [Is] not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer [that] breaketh the rock <05553> in pieces?

Dwell in the rock

Nu 24:21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock <05553>.

Jud 15:8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock <05553> Etam.

Jud 21:13 And the whole congregation sent [some] to speak to the children of Benjamin that [were] in the rock <05553> Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

1Sa 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks <05553>, and in high places, and in pits.

1Sa 23:25 Saul also and his men went to seek [him]. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock <05553>, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

Job 39:28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock <05553>, upon the crag of the rock <05553>, and the strong place.

Ps 104:18 The high hills [are] a refuge for the wild goats; [and] the rocks <05553> for the conies.

Pr 30:26 The conies [are but] a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks <05553>;

So 2:14 O my dove, [that art] in the clefts of the rock <05553>, in the secret [places] of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet [is] thy voice, and thy countenance [is] comely.

Isa 2:21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks <05553>, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

Isa 7:19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks <05553>, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

Isa 22:16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, [as] he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, [and] that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock <05553>?

Isa 31:9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold <05553> for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire [is] in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Isa 32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock <05553> in a weary land.

Isa 33:16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence [shall be] the munitions of rocks <05553>: bread shall be given him; his waters [shall be] sure.

Isa 42:11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up [their voice], the villages [that] Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock <05553> sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

Jer 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks <05553>.

Jer 48:28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock <05553>, and be like the dove [that] maketh her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth.

Jer 49:16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, [and] the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock <05553>, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down f

Ob 1:3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock <05553>, whose habitation [is] high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

Sustenance from the rock

De 32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock <05553>, and oil out of the flinty rock;

Location

Jer 51:25 Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks <05553>, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

Jud 1:36 And the coast of the Amorites [was] from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock <05553>, and upward.

Jud 15:11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock <05553> Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines [are] rulers over us? what [is] this [that] thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me,

Jud 15:13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock <05553>.

Jud 20:45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock <05553> of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

Jud 20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock <05553> Rimmon, and abode in the rock <05553> Rimmon four months.

1Sa 14:4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison, [there was] a sharp rock <05553> on the one side, and a sharp rock <05553> on the other side: and the name of the one [was] Bozez, and the name of the

2Ch 25:12 And [other] ten thousand [left] alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock <05553>, and cast them down from the top of the rock <05553>, that they all were broken in pieces.

Ps 141:6 When their judges are overthrown in stony <05553> places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

Jer 13:4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which [is] upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock <05553>.

Altar

Jud 6:20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay [them] upon this rock <05553>, and pour out the broth. And he did so.

Isa 57:5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks <05553>?

Eze 24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock <05553>; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

Eze 24:8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock <05553>, that it should not be covered.

Plural

Ps 104:18 The high hills [are] a refuge for the wild goats; [and] the rocks <05553> for the conies.

1Ki 19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks <05553> before the LORD; [but] the LORD [was] not in the wind: and a

Ps 137:9 Happy [shall he be], that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones <05553>.

Other

Jer 5:3 O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock <05553>; they have refused to r

Eze 26:4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock <05553>.

Eze 26:14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock <05553>: thou shalt be [a place] to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD.

Am 6:12 Shall horses run upon the rock <05553>? will [one] plow [there] with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: