12 Bible Verses about Defeat Of God's People
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Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country, and struck them, and routed them, even unto Hormah.
And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and struck Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
And the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled every man into 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.
O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies!
In those days the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel: and Hazael defeated them in all the territory of Israel;
And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and cut down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.
And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and cut down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
And there was a very fierce battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
And Judah was defeated before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.
Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?