Thematic Bible: Cowardice, examples of


Thematic Bible



When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from his presence and were very afraid.

Saul {was threatened by David still more}, so Saul {became a perpetual enemy of David}.


There we saw the Nephilim (the descendants of Anak [came] from the Nephilim), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their eyes." Then all the community {lifted up their voices}, and the people wept during that night.

The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them, and they chased them from the gate up to Shebarim and killed them on the slope. And the hearts of the people melted and became like water.


Then David said to all his servants who [were] with him in Jerusalem, "Get up and let us flee, for there will be no escape for us from Absalom! Hurry to go, otherwise he will come quickly and overtake us! And he will bring disaster on us and evil! He will attack the city with the edge of the sword!"




So then, please proclaim in the {hearing} of the troops, saying, 'Whoever [is] fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from the Mount of Gilead.'" About twenty-two thousand troops returned, and ten thousand remained.


The sons of Ephraim, {armed with archers}, turned back on [the] day of battle.