Leviticus 26:37
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37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though no one pursues, and you shall have no power to stand against your enemies.(A)
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Judges 2:14
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14 So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers who plundered them, and he sold them into the power of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.(A)
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Joshua 7:12-13
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12 Therefore the Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they turn their backs to their enemies because they have become a thing devoted for destruction themselves. I will be with you no more unless you destroy the devoted things from among you. 13 Proceed to sanctify the people and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: There are devoted things among you, O Israel; you will be unable to stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.(A)
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Jeremiah 37:10
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10 Even if you defeated the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you and there remained of them only wounded men in their tents, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.(A)
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Isaiah 10:4
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4 so as not to crouch among the prisoners
or fall among the slain?
For all this his anger has not turned away;
his hand is stretched out still.(A)
1 Samuel 14:15-16
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15 There was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison and even the raiders trembled; the earth quaked; and it became a very great panic.(A)
16 Saul’s lookouts in Gibeah of Benjamin were watching as the multitude was surging back and forth.[a](B)
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- 14.16 Gk: Heb they went and there
Judges 7:22
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22 When they blew the three hundred trumpets, the Lord set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army, and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah,[a] as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.(A)
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- 7.22 Another reading is Zeredah
Numbers 14:42
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42 Do not go up, for the Lord is not with you; do not let yourselves be struck down before your enemies.(A)
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