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
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves and in thickets and in rocks and in high places and in pits.
1 Kings 20:15
Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the sons of Israel, being seven thousand.
Isaiah 36:8
Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou art able on thy part to set riders upon them.
The king
2 Kings 8:12
Then Hazael said unto him, Why does my lord weep? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the sons of Israel; their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword and wilt dash their children and rip up their women with child.
2 Kings 10:32
In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short, and Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel,
Like the dust
Psalm 18:42
Then I beat them as small as the dust before the wind: I scattered them as the dirt in the streets.
Isaiah 41:2
Who raised up righteousness from the east, called him that he might follow him, gave the Gentiles before him, and made him rule over kings? He gave them as the dust to his sword and as driven stubble to his bow.
Joel 3:14
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
General references
Proverbs 14:28
In the multitude of the people is the king's glory, but in the failure of the people is the weakness of the prince.