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.
And whanne men of Israel hadden seyn this, þat þei weren set in streiytnesse, for þe puple was turmentid, þei hidden hem silf in dennes, and in priuey places, and in stonys, and in dychis, and in cisternes.