12 Bible Verses about Defeat Of God's People

Then the Amalekite came down and the Canaanite who dwelt in that hill and smote them and defeated them, pursuing them unto Hormah.

And he gathered unto him the sons of Ammon and of Amalek and went and smote Israel and took the city of palm trees.

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

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

O Lord, what shall I say now that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short, 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 twenty-two thousand men of the Israelites that day.

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

And there was a very severe battle that day where Abner and the men of Israel were overcome before the slaves of David.

where the people of Israel were slain before the slaves of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.

But Judah fell before Israel, and they fled each man to their tents.

And if the fall of them is the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more shall their fullness be?