fSee Judg. 2:14
Numbers 14:9
9Only ado not rebel against the Lord. And bdo not fear the people of the land, for cthey are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”Deuteronomy 28:7
7“The Lord dwill cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.Deuteronomy 32:30
30How could eone have chased a thousand,and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock fhad sold them,
and the Lord had given them up?
Joshua 23:10
10 gOne man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God hwho fights for you, just as he promised you.Judges 7:19-21
Gideon Defeats Midian
19So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands. 20Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow. iAnd they cried out, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!” 21Every man stood in his place around the camp, jand all the army ran. They cried out and fled.1 Samuel 14:6-16
6Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these kuncircumcised. It may be that the Lord will work for us, lfor nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.” 7And his armor-bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish. ▼▼Septuagint Do all that your mind inclines to
Behold, I am with you heart and soul.” 8Then Jonathan said, “Behold, we will cross over to the men, and we will show ourselves to them. 9If they say to us, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them. 10But if they say, ‘Come up to us,’ then we will go up, for the Lord has given them into our hand. And this shall be the sign to us.” 11So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, “Look, Hebrews are coming nout of the holes where they have hidden themselves.” 12And the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor-bearer and said, “Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.” And Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, “Come up after me, for the Lord has given them into the hand of Israel.” 13Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him. 14And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed about twenty men within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre ▼▼Hebrew a yoke
of land. 15And there was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and even pthe raiders trembled, the earth quaked, and it became a very great panic. ▼▼Or became a panic from God
16And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude rwas dispersing here and there. ▼
▼Septuagint; Hebrew they went here and there
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