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'Back' in the Bible

What can I say, Lord, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?

Verse ConceptsTurning One's BackDefeat Of God's People

Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten back by them and fled toward the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsPretendingIsrael Fleeing

The men of Ai turned and looked back, and smoke from the city was rising to the sky! They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesConflagrations

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.

Joshua did not draw back his hand that was holding the sword until all the inhabitants of Ai were completely destroyed.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilation

At that time Joshua turned back, captured Hazor, and struck down its king with the sword, because Hazor had formerly been the leader of all these kingdoms.

Verse ConceptsKingdomsKilling Kings

I was 40 years old when Moses the Lord’s servant sent me from Kadesh-barnea to scout the land, and I brought back an honest report.

Verse ConceptsSpying

The boundary then turned to Ramah as far as the fortified city of Tyre; it turned back to Hosah and ended at the sea, including Mahalab, Achzib,

Then Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest and the leaders returned from the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead to the Israelites in the land of Canaan and brought back a report to them.

The Lord your God will force them back on your account and drive them out before you so that you can take possession of their land, as the Lord your God promised you.

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

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