Deuteronomy 1:42
Then said Yahweh unto me - Say unto them Ye shall not go up, nor fight, for I am not in your midst, - lest ye should be smitten before your enemies.
Leviticus 26:17
And I will set my face against you, And ye shall be smitten before your foes,-And be trodden down by them who hate you, And shall flee when no one is pursuing you.
Numbers 14:41-43
But Moses said, Wherefore is it that, ye, are going beyond the bidding of Yahweh, - since that cannot prosper?
Joshua 7:8-13
Oh My Lord, - what shall I say, after Israel have turned their backs before their enemies?
1 Samuel 4:2
And the Philistines set themselves in array to meet Israel, and, when the battle spread, then was Israel smitten before the Philistines, - and there were slain of the army in the field about four thousand men.
1 Samuel 4:10
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man to his home; and the slaughter became exceeding great, - and there fell of Israel - thirty thousand footmen.
Isaiah 30:17
One thousand, before the war-cry of one - before the war-cry of five, shall ye flee, - Until ye have been left, As a pole on the top of a mountain, And as an ensign upon a hill.
Isaiah 59:1-2
Lo! the hand of Yahweh is not too short to say, - Neither is his ear too heavy to hear.
Hosea 9:12
Yea, though they rear their children, yet will I make them childless, till there be no human being, - for it is, nothing less than woe, to them when I depart from them!