Psalm 44:10
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10 You made us turn back from the foe,
and our enemies have gotten spoil.(A)
Joshua 7:8
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8 O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned their backs to their enemies!
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Leviticus 26:17
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17 I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down by your enemies; your foes shall rule over you, and you shall flee though no one pursues you.(A)
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Psalm 89:41
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41 All who pass by plunder him;
he has become the scorn of his neighbors.(A)
Joshua 7:12
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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.
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Deuteronomy 28:25
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25 “The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way and flee before them seven ways. You shall become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.(A)
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Jeremiah 20:8
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8 For whenever I speak, I must cry out;
I must shout, “Violence and destruction!”
For the word of the Lord has become for me
a reproach and derision all day long.(A)
Jeremiah 15:13
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13 Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.(A)
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Isaiah 10:14
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14 My 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 its mouth or chirped.”(A)
Isaiah 10:6
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6 Against a godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.(A)
1 Samuel 31:1-7
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The Death of Saul and His Sons
31 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and many fell[a] on Mount Gilboa.(A) 2 The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua, the sons of Saul. 3 The battle pressed hard on Saul, and the archers found him, and he was badly wounded by them.(B) 4 Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised may not come and thrust me through and make sport of me.” But his armor-bearer was unwilling, for he was terrified. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.(C) 5 When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him. 6 So Saul and his three sons and his armor-bearer and all his men died together on the same day. 7 When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their towns and fled, and the Philistines came and occupied them.
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- 31.1 Heb and they fell slain
1 Samuel 4:17
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17 The messenger replied, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great slaughter[a] among the troops; your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
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- 4.17 Heb plague
Leviticus 26:36-37
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36 And as for those of you who survive, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall though no one pursues.(A) 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.(B)
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Leviticus 26:14
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Penalties for Disobedience
14 “But if you will not obey me and do not observe all these commandments,(A)
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