cSee Judg. 14:3
1 Samuel 17:10
10And the Philistine said, a“I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together.”1 Samuel 17:26
26And David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away bthe reproach from Israel? For who is this cuncircumcised Philistine, that he should ddefy the armies of ethe living God?”2 Kings 18:20-21
20Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me? 21Behold, you are trusting now in Egypt, that broken reed of fa staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.Psalms 10:5
5His ways prosper at all times;your judgments are on high, gout of his sight;
as for all his foes, he hpuffs at them.
Isaiah 10:13-14
13 iFor he says:“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I remove the boundaries of peoples,
and plunder their treasures;
like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
14My hand has found like a nest
the wealth of the peoples;
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
so I have gathered all the earth;
and there was none that moved a wing
or opened the mouth or chirped.”
Luke 18:2-4
2He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who jneither feared God nor respected man. 3And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, k‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,
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