12 Bible Verses about Defeat Of God's People

Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even to Hormah.

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

And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, 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 thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.

O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turn 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 children of Benjamin came forth from Gibeah, and destroyed 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 destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

And there was a very severe battle that day; and Abner was defeated, 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?