6 Bible Verses about Falling Backwards

When He told them, “I am He,” they stepped back and fell to the ground.

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off the chair by the city gate, and since he was old and heavy, his neck broke and he died. Eli had judged Israel 40 years.

and a young man named Eutychus was sitting on a window sill and sank into a deep sleep as Paul kept on speaking. When he was overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

Then the word of the Lord came to them:
“Law after law, law after law,
line after line, line after line,
a little here, a little there,”
so they go stumbling backward,
to be broken, trapped, and captured.

He will be a snake by the road,
a viper beside the path,
that bites the horses’ heels
so that its rider falls backward.

When my enemies retreat,
they stumble and perish before You.