10 (A)One man of you shall chase a thousand, for the Lord your God is He who fights for you, (B)as He promised you.

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30 How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their Rock (A)had sold them,
And the Lord had surrendered them?

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(A)Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight;

your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.

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22 You must not fear them, for (A)the Lord your God Himself fights for you.’

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The Lord the Avenger of His People

A Psalm of David.

35 Plead[a] my cause, O Lord, with those who strive with me;
Fight against those who fight against me.

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  1. Psalm 35:1 Contend for me

for the Lord your God is He who goes with you, (A)to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’

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God’s Everlasting Love

31 What then shall we say to these things? (A)If God is for us, who can be against us?

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The (A)Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

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You have seen all that the (A)Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you, for the (B)Lord your God is He who has fought for you.

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(A)You are my King, [a]O God;
[b]Command victories for Jacob.
Through You (B)we will push down our enemies;
Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.

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  1. Psalm 44:4 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. and my God
  2. Psalm 44:4 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. Who commands

Then Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these (A)uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will work for us. For nothing restrains the Lord (B)from saving by many or by few.”

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42 All these kings and their land Joshua took at one time, (A)because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.

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27 “I will send (A)My fear before you, I will (B)cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 And (C)I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you. 29 (D)I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land. 31 And (E)I will set your [a]bounds from the Red Sea to the sea, Philistia, and from the desert to the [b]River. For I will (F)deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. 32 (G)You shall make no [c]covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, (H)it will surely be a snare to you.”

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  1. Exodus 23:31 boundaries
  2. Exodus 23:31 Heb. Nahar, the Euphrates
  3. Exodus 23:32 treaty

15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and (A)killed a thousand men with it.

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David’s Mighty Men(A)

These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: [a]Josheb-Basshebeth the Tachmonite, chief among [b]the captains. He was called Adino the Eznite, because he had killed eight hundred men at one time.

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  1. 2 Samuel 23:8 Lit. One Who Sits in the Seat (1 Chr. 11:11)
  2. 2 Samuel 23:8 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. the three

Shamgar

31 After him was (A)Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed six hundred men of the Philistines (B)with an ox goad; (C)and he also delivered (D)Israel.

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12 Then the men of the garrison called to Jonathan and his armorbearer, and said, “Come up to us, and we will [a]show you something.”

Jonathan said to his armorbearer, “Come up after me, for the Lord has delivered them into the hand of Israel.” 13 And Jonathan climbed up on his hands and knees with his armorbearer after him; and they (A)fell before Jonathan. And as he came after him, his armorbearer killed them. 14 That first slaughter which Jonathan and his armorbearer made was about twenty men within about [b]half an acre of land.

15 And (B)there was [c]trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and (C)the raiders also trembled; and the earth quaked, so that it was (D)a very great trembling. 16 Now the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and there was the multitude, melting away; and they (E)went here and there.

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  1. 1 Samuel 14:12 teach
  2. 1 Samuel 14:14 Lit. half the area plowed by a yoke of oxen in a day
  3. 1 Samuel 14:15 terror

19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers—they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing—and they cried, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!” 21 And (A)every man stood in his place all around the camp; (B)and the whole army ran and cried out and fled. 22 When the three hundred (C)blew the trumpets, (D)the Lord set (E)every man’s sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to [a]Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of (F)Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.

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  1. Judges 7:22 Heb. Beth Shittah

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