2 Peter 2:4 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; (WEB ASV NAS RSV)
Genesis 14:10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Genesis 37:20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say,'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams." (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 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, and in coverts, and in pits. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
2 Samuel 17:9 lo, now, he is hidden in one of the pits, or in one of the places, and it hath been, at the falling among them at the commencement, that the hearer hath heard, and said, There hath been a slaughter among the people who 'are' after Absalom; (YLT RSV)
Psalms 119:85 The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Psalms 140:10 Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 42:22 But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 2:6 Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 14:3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. (KJV JPS DBY WBS)
Lamentations 4:5 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. (See NAS)
Lamentations 4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)