24 Bible Verses about A Thousand People

One of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God he fighteth for you, as he hath said unto you.

How cometh it that one shall chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand of them to flight - except their rock had sold them, and because the LORD had delivered them.

These were of the sons of Gad, and were captains over the men of war, the small over a hundred, and the great over a thousand.

For thus sayeth the LORD God, 'Whereas there dwelt a thousand in one city, there shall be left scarcely a hundred therein: and where before dwelt a hundred, there shall scarcely ten be left for the house of Israel.'

A thousand of you shall flee for one, or at the most for five, which do but only give you evil words: until ye be desolate, as a ship mast upon a high mountain, and as a beacon upon a hill.

And all the people cut down also every man a bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them into the hold, and set the hold a fire upon them: so that all the men of the tower of Shechem were slain, upon a thousand persons what of men and women together.

And he found a jawbone of a ratten ass, and put forth his hand and caught it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

And Samson said, "With the jaw of an ass, have I made heaps: with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men!"

A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy righthand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

And of Naphtali a thousand Captains, and with them, with shield and spear, thirty seven thousand.

King Belshazzar made a great banquet to his thousand lords: with all these thousand he made great cheer,

- The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you as he hath promised you -

And the women that played sang thereto, and said, "Saul hath slain his thousand, and David his ten thousand." Then was Saul exceeding wroth and that saying displeased him, and he said, "They have ascribed unto David ten thousand, and to me but a thousand. And what more can he have, save the kingdom?"

And the servants of Achish said of him, "Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing unto this fellow in dances saying, 'Saul hath slain his thousand, and David his ten thousand'?"

Is not this David to whom they sang in dances, 'Saul slew his thousand, but David his ten thousand?'"

Moreover, seek out, among all the people, men of activity which fear God; and men that are true and hate covetousness: and make them heads over the people, captains over thousands, over hundreds, over fifty, and over ten.

and chose active men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, captains over thousands, over hundreds, over fifty and over ten.

And then I took the heads of your tribes, men of wisdom and that were expert, and made them rulers over you: captains over thousands and over hundreds, over fifty and over ten, and officers among your tribes.

Ye shall send unto the war a thousand of every tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel."

And there were taken, out of the thousands of Israel, twelve thousand prepared unto war: of every tribe a thousand.

And Moses sent them - a thousand of every tribe, with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest - to war, and the holy vessels and the trumpets to blow with, in his hand.

he chose him three thousand men out of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and Mount Bethel, and a thousand with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the people he sent, every man to his own house.

And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank unto David, they sent and hired the sons of Bethrehob of the Syrians of Zobah: twenty thousand footmen; and of king Maacah: a thousand men; and of Ishtob: twelve thousand men.

and a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants with him. And they whipt over Jordan before the king.