Leviticus 26:37

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Josh 7:12-13 : 12 For this reason the children of Israel have given way, turning their backs in flight before their attackers, because they are cursed: I will no longer be with you, if you do not put the cursed thing away from among you. 13 Up! make the people holy; say to them, Make yourselves holy before tomorrow, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, There is a cursed thing among you, O Israel, and you will give way before your attackers in the fight till the cursed thing has been taken away from among you.
  • 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 7:22 : 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.
  • 1 Sam 14:15-16 : 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.
  • Isa 10:4 : 4 ... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • Jer 37:10 : 10 For even if you had overcome all the army of the Chaldaeans fighting against you, and there were only wounded men among them, still they would get up, every man in his tent, and put this town on fire.
  • Num 14:42 : 42 Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will be overcome by those who are fighting against you.

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  • 36 And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

  • Lev 26:7-8
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    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.

  • Lev 26:38-39
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    38 And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

    39 And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.

  • Lev 26:16-17
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    16 This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

    17 And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.

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    25 The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

    26 Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.

  • Joel 2:7-8
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    7 They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.

    8 No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.

  • Isa 13:14-15
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    14 And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

    15 Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.

  • 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.

  • Lev 26:32-33
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    32 And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.

    33 And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.

  • 40 And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

  • 25 All people will give way before you: for the Lord your God will put the fear of you on all the land through which you go, as he has said.

  • 7 By the power of the Lord, those who take arms against you will be overcome before you: they will come out against you one way, and will go in flight from you seven ways.

  • 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.

  • 12 You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction.

  • 43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will be put to death by their swords: because you have gone back from the way of the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.

  • 25 Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.

  • Jer 5:16-17
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    16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

    17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • 25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

  • 8 The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

  • 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.

  • 65 And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:

  • 5 And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.

  • 9 He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

  • 27 And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.

  • 5 Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.

  • 14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • 8 Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his young men will be put to forced work.

  • 15 And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.

  • 5 What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.

  • 10 And I will make a number of peoples overcome with wonder at you, and their kings will be full of fear because of you, when my sword is waved before them: they will be shaking every minute, every man fearing for his life, in the day of your fall.

  • 38 I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

  • 15 Outside is the sword, and inside disease and need of food: he who is in the open country will be put to the sword; he who is in the town will come to his end through need of food and disease.

  • 13 And it will be on that day that a great fear will be sent among them from the Lord; and everyone will take his neighbour's hand, and every man's hand will be lifted against his neighbour's.

  • 25 Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace.

  • 43 For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

  • 20 And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.

  • 27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

  • 26 And his fears will overcome him and be the cause of his downfall, and his army will come to complete destruction, and a great number will be put to the sword.

  • 27 I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.

  • 11 Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.

  • 3 Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be strong; do not let uncontrolled fear overcome you because of those who are against you;

  • 17 All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.