Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
Fifty horsemen
The king
Like the dust
General references
Bible References
Fifty horsemen
1 Samuel 13:6
And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed); and the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in cliffs, and in strongholds, and in pits.
1 Kings 20:15
And he numbered the servants of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two; and after them he numbered all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand.
Isaiah 36:8
And now engage, I pray thee, with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
The king
2 Kings 8:12
And Hazael said, Why does my lord weep? And he said, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel: their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou kill with the sword, and wilt dash in pieces their children, and rip up their women with child.
2 Kings 10:32
In those days Jehovah began to cut Israel short; and Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel;
Like the dust
Psalm 18:42
And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 41:2
Who raised up from the east him whom righteousness calleth to its foot? He gave the nations before him, and caused him to have dominion over kings; he gave them as dust to his sword, as driven stubble to his bow.
Joel 3:14
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is at hand in the valley of decision.
General references
Proverbs 14:28
In the multitude of people is the king's glory; but in the lack of people is the ruin of a prince.