Deuteronomy 32:30

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How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?

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  • Lev 26:8 : 8 Then five of you will put to flight a hundred, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand, and all who are against you will be put to death by your swords.
  • Josh 23:10 : 10 One man of you is able to put to flight a thousand; for it is the Lord your God who is fighting for you, as he has said to you.
  • Ps 44:12 : 12 You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price.
  • Isa 30:17 : 17 A thousand will go in fear before one; even before five you will go in flight: till you are like a pillar by itself on the top of a mountain, and like a flag on a hill.
  • Judg 2:14 : 14 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them.
  • Judg 3:8 : 8 So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel were his servants for eight years.
  • Judg 7:22-23 : 22 And the three hundred gave a loud note on their horns, and every man's sword was turned by the Lord against his brother all through the army; and the army went in flight as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zeredah, to the edge of Abel-meholah by Tabbath. 23 And the men of Israel came together from Naphtali and from Asher and all Manasseh, and went after Midian.
  • 1 Sam 14:15-17 : 15 And there was great fear in the tents and in the field and among all the men of the armed force, and the attackers were shaking with fear; even the earth was moved with a great shaking and there was a fear as from God. 16 And the watchmen of Saul, looking out from Geba in the land of Benjamin, saw all the army flowing away and running here and there. 17 Then Saul said to the people who were with him, Let everyone be numbered and let us see who has gone from us. And when they had been numbered, it was seen that Jonathan and his servant were not there.
  • 2 Chr 24:24 : 24 For though the army of Aram was only a small one, the Lord gave a very great army into their hands, because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers. So they put into effect the punishment of Joash.
  • Job 11:10 : 10 If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?
  • Job 16:11 : 11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
  • Ps 31:8 : 8 And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.
  • Isa 50:1 : 1 This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.
  • Isa 52:3 : 3 For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.
  • Matt 18:25 : 25 And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 32:31
    83%

    31 For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.

  • Deut 32:27-29
    3 verses
    77%

    27 But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.

    28 For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

    29 If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!

  • Deut 32:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36 For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.

    37 And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?

  • 2 Sam 22:32
    71%

    32 For who is God but the Lord? and who is a Rock but our God?

  • Josh 23:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9 For the Lord has sent out from before you nations great and strong: and they have all given way before you till this day.

    10 One man of you is able to put to flight a thousand; for it is the Lord your God who is fighting for you, as he has said to you.

  • Josh 2:10
    69%

    10 For we have had news of how the Lord made the Red Sea dry before you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, on the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you gave up to the curse.

  • Exod 15:16
    69%

    16 Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm they were turned to stone; till your people went over, O Lord, till the people went over whom you have made yours.

  • Isa 30:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16 Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those who go after you will be quick-footed.

    17 A thousand will go in fear before one; even before five you will go in flight: till you are like a pillar by itself on the top of a mountain, and like a flag on a hill.

  • Lev 26:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7 And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords.

    8 Then five of you will put to flight a hundred, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand, and all who are against you will be put to death by your swords.

  • 2 Chr 25:12
    69%

    12 And ten thousand more the children of Israel took living, and made them go up to the top of the rock, pushing them down from the top of the rock so that their bodies were broken by the fall.

  • Ps 18:31
    69%

    31 For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?

  • Num 32:15
    69%

    15 For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

  • Isa 48:21
    69%

    21 They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

  • 1 Sam 12:9
    68%

    9 But they were false to the Lord their God, and he gave them up into the hands of Sisera, captain of the army of Jabin, king of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the king of Moab, who made war against them.

  • Deut 32:18
    68%

    18 You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    68%

    11 See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.

  • Ps 60:10
    68%

    10 Have not you put us away, O God? and you have not gone out with our armies.

  • Deut 33:27
    68%

    27 The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them.

  • Num 32:9
    68%

    9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they took from the children of Israel the desire to go into the land which the Lord had given them.

  • Jer 46:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15 Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.

    16 ... are stopped in their going, they are falling; and they say one to another, Let us get up and go back to our people, to the land of our birth, away from the cruel sword.

  • Num 31:27
    68%

    27 And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:

  • 2 Sam 22:2
    68%

    2 And he said, The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour, even mine;

  • Deut 2:15
    68%

    15 For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.

  • Num 32:7
    67%

    7 Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire to go over into the land which the Lord has given them?

  • Ps 78:35
    67%

    35 In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.

  • Deut 8:15
    67%

    15 Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

  • Ps 124:2
    67%

    2 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men came up against us;

  • Exod 14:25
    67%

    25 And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before the face of Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.

  • Judg 2:14
    67%

    14 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them.

  • Deut 29:7
    67%

    7 When you came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out to make war against us and we overcame them:

  • Lev 26:37
    67%

    37 Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.

  • Gen 32:8
    67%

    8 And said, If Esau, meeting one group, makes an attack on them, the others will get away safely.

  • Deut 31:5
    67%

    5 The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders.

  • Josh 10:10
    67%

    10 And the Lord made them full of fear before Israel, and they put great numbers of them to death at Gibeon, and went after them by the way going up to Beth-horon, driving them back to Azekah and Makkedah

  • Ps 144:1
    67%

    1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting:

  • Josh 7:8
    67%

    8 O Lord, what am I to say now that Israel have given way before their attackers?

  • Ps 78:20
    67%

    20 See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people?