24 Bible Verses about A Thousand People

One of you can make a thousand men run away, because Jehovah your God is fighting for you, as he promised.

Why were a thousand defeated by one? Why ten thousand by only two? Jehovah their God abandoned them! Their mighty God gave them up.

These warriors from Gad were army commanders. The weakest among them could take on a hundred regular troops, and the strongest could take on a thousand!

The (Sovereign and Almighty) Lord Jehovah declared: The city that went forth a thousand will have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred will have ten left, for the house of Israel.

One thousand people will flee when one person threatens them. You will flee when five threaten you. Then you will be left alone like a flagpole on top of a mountain, like a signpost on a hill.

So everyone cut off a tree limb. They followed Abimelech and piled the wood up against the stronghold. They set the fort on fire. All the people of the fort died. About a thousand men and women died.

Samson found a fresh jawbone of a donkey. He picked it up, and killed a thousand men with it.

Then Samson said: With the jawbone of a donkey I piled them in piles. With the jawbone of a donkey I killed a thousand men.

They will not come near you, even though a thousand may fall dead beside you or ten thousand at your right side.

From the tribe of Naphtali, there were one thousand officers and thirty-seven thousand warriors armed with shields and spears.

King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine with them.

Jehovah the God of your fathers will make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he promised you!

The women who celebrated sang: Saul has defeated thousands but David tens of thousands! Saul became very angry because he considered this saying to be insulting. He said: To David they credit tens of thousands but to me they credit only a few thousand. The only thing left for David is my kingdom.

The officers of King Achish were also there. They asked Achish: Is David a king back in his own country? Do the Israelites not dance and sing: 'Saul has killed a thousand enemies; David has killed ten thousand enemies?'

This is David, the one about whom the women sang, as they danced: Saul has killed thousands, but David has killed tens of thousands.

You should choose capable men from all the people. Find men who respect God. These must be men you can trust who hate corruption. Put them in charge of groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.

and chose capable men from among all the Israelites. He appointed them as leaders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.

So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them rulers over you. I made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.

Send one thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel.

Thus one thousand men from each tribe were supplied from the divisions of Israel, twelve thousand men ready for war.

Moses sent them off to war. There were one thousand men from each tribe along with Phinehas, son of the priest Eleazar. Phinehas took with him the holy articles and the trumpets for the fanfare.

Saul chose three thousand men from Israel. Two thousand of them were stationed with Saul at Michmash and in the mountains of Bethel. One thousand were stationed with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. He sent the rest of the people home.

The Ammonites realized they had made themselves repulsive to David. They hired the Arameans from Beth Rehob and Zobah, with twenty thousand foot soldiers. From the army of the king of Maacah they hired one thousand men, and twelve thousand men of Tob.

One thousand people from Benjamin were with him. Ziba the servant of Saul's family rushed to the Jordan River across from the king. Ziba brought his fifteen sons and twenty servants.