12 Bible Verses about Defeat Of God's People

Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain, and smote them and beat them down, even to Hormah.

And he gathered to him the sons of Ammon and Amalek, and he went and smote Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.

And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man to his tent. And there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

So there went up there of the people about three thousand men. And they fled before the men of Ai.

Oh, LORD, what shall I say after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

In those days LORD began to cut off from Israel. And Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel,

And the sons of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty-two thousand men.

And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the sons of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.

And the battle was very severe that day. And Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

And the people of Israel were smitten there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.

Now if their transgression is wealth of the world, and their failure is wealth of Gentiles, how much more their fullness?