12 Bible Verses about Defeat Of God's People
Most Relevant Verses
Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
He gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.
The Philistines fought, and Israel was struck, and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.
Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!
In those days Yahweh began to cut off from Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel;
The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men.
Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
The people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?