12 Bible Verses about Defeat Of God's People

Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who dwelt in that mountain, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah.

And he gathered unto him the children 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 thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.

Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel hath turned their backs before their enemies!

In those days Jehovah began to cut off from Israel: and Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel;

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

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

And the battle was very sore 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 fall, is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?