12 Bible Verses about Defeat Of God's People

Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, came down and smote them and hewed them: even unto Hormah.

And this Eglon gathered unto him the children of Ammon, and the Amalekites, and went and smote the children of Israel, and conquered the city of palm trees.

And the Philistines fought, and Israel was put to the worse and fled, every man into his tent. And there was a mighty great slaughter, so that there were overthrown of Israel, thirty thousand footmen.

And so there went up thither about a three thousand men, which fled before the men of Ai.

Oh Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies?

In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short, for Hazael slew them in all the coasts of Israel,

And the children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and destroyed in Israel that day twenty two thousand men, and brought them to the earth.

the children of Benjamin went against them out of Gibeah, the second day, and destroyed to the earth of the children of Israel once again, eighteen thousand men that drew swords every man of them.

And there began an exceeding cruel battle that same day. But Abner and the men of Israel were put to the worse of the servants of David.

where the people of Israel were put to the worse before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter that day, even of twenty thousand men.

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

Wherefore, if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the gentiles, how much more should it be so if they all believed?