Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
Fifty horsemen
The king
Like the dust
General references
Bible References
Fifty horsemen
1 Samuel 13:6
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed) then the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
1 Kings 20:15
Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
Isaiah 36:8
Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou canst on thy part set riders upon them.
The king
2 Kings 8:12
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
2 Kings 10:32
In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel;
Like the dust
Psalm 18:42
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
Isaiah 41:2
Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
Joel 3:14
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
General references
Proverbs 14:28
In the multitude of people is the king's honor: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.