12 Bible Verses about Defeat Of God's People
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And the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt on that hill, came down and smote them, and cut them to pieces, as far as Hormah.
He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amal'ekites, and went and defeated Israel; and they took possession of the city of palms.
And the Philistines fought, and Israel was routed, and they fled every man to his tent; and there was a very great slaughter, and there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
And there went up thither of the people about three thousand men, but they fled before the men of Ai.
Ah Lord! what shall I say after Israel have turned their backs before their enemies?
In those days Jehovah began to cut Israel short; and Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel;
The Benjaminites came out of Gib'e-ah, and felled to the ground on that day twenty-two thousand men of the Israelites.
And Benjamin went against them out of Gib'e-ah the second day, and felled to the ground eighteen thousand men of the people of Israel; all these were men who drew the sword.
And the battle that day was very severe; and Abner and the men of Israel were routed before the servants of David.
And the people of Israel were routed before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day: twenty thousand men.
And Judah was routed before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.
But if their fall be the world's wealth, and their loss the wealth of the nations, how much rather their fulness?