12 Bible Verses about Defeat Of God's People

And the Amalekite and the Canaanite who are dwelling in that mountain come down and smite them, and beat them down -- unto Hormah.

and he gathereth unto him the Bene-Ammon and Amalek, and goeth and smiteth Israel, and they possess the city of palms;

And the Philistines fight, and Israel is smitten, and they flee each to his tents, and the blow is very great, and there fall of Israel thirty thousand footmen;

And there go up of the people thither about three thousand men, and they flee before the men of Ai,

Oh, Lord, what do I say, after that Israel hath turned the neck before its enemies?

In those days hath Jehovah begun to cut off some in Israel, and Hazael smiteth them in all the border of Israel,

and the sons of Benjamin come out from Gibeah, and destroy in Israel on that day two and twenty thousand men -- to the earth.

and Benjamin cometh out to meet them from Gibeah on the second day, and destroy among the sons of Israel again eighteen thousand men -- to the earth; all these are drawing sword.

and the battle is very hard on that day, and Abner is smitten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

and smitten there are the people of Israel before the servants of David, and the smiting there is great on that day -- twenty thousand;

and Judah is smitten before Israel, and they flee each to his tent.

and if the fall of them is the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?