Judges 5:8

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When they chose new gods, then war came to the city gates. Not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.

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  • Deut 32:16-17 : 16 They made Him jealous with strange gods and provoked Him to anger with detestable practices. 17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to new gods that had recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear.
  • Judg 2:12 : 12 They abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods, the gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger.
  • Judg 2:17 : 17 Yet they did not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves by worshiping other gods. They turned quickly from the way their ancestors had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments. They did not do as their ancestors had done.
  • Judg 4:3 : 3 The Israelites cried out to the LORD for help, for Sisera had nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the Israelites cruelly for twenty years.
  • 1 Sam 13:19-22 : 19 No blacksmith could be found throughout the whole land of Israel, because the Philistines said, 'Otherwise, the Hebrews might make swords or spears.' 20 So all the Israelites had to go down to the Philistines to sharpen each person's plowshare, mattock, axe, or sickle. 21 The price for sharpening plowshares, mattocks, pitchforks, and axes, or for setting goads, was two-thirds of a shekel. 22 So on the day of the battle, no sword or spear was found in the hands of the entire army with Saul and Jonathan, except for Saul and his son Jonathan themselves.

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    6In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned; travelers took to winding paths.

    7Village life in Israel ceased, ceased until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.

  • Judg 5:9
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    9My heart is with Israel’s commanders, with the willing volunteers among the people. Praise the Lord!

  • Judg 20:34
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    34Ten thousand of Israel's finest men advanced against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was closing in on them.

  • Judg 20:2
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    2The leaders of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, took their positions in the assembly of the people of God—four hundred thousand soldiers armed with swords.

  • Judg 5:1-2
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    1On that day, Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, sang this song:

    2When the leaders in Israel take charge, when the people willingly offer themselves—praise the Lord!

  • Judg 20:17-20
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    17The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand soldiers armed with swords, all experienced warriors.

    18The Israelites went up to Bethel and inquired of God. They said, "Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjaminites?" The LORD replied, "Judah shall go first."

    19The next morning the Israelites got up and camped near Gibeah.

    20The Israelites went out to fight the Benjaminites and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah.

  • Josh 22:12
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    12When the Israelites heard this, the whole assembly gathered at Shiloh to go to war against them.

  • 1 Sam 4:2
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    2The Philistines set their forces against Israel, and the battle began. Israel was defeated by the Philistines, and about four thousand men were killed on the battlefield.

  • 1 Chr 5:22
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    22Many were killed because the battle was from God, and they lived in their territory until the time of the exile.

  • Judg 10:6
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    6The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. They abandoned the LORD and did not serve Him.

  • Num 31:4-5
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    4Send a thousand men from each tribe of Israel for the army.

    5So they selected from the thousands of Israel a thousand men from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for battle.

  • 1 Sam 4:10
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    10The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated. Each man fled to his tent, and the slaughter was very great—thirty thousand Israelite foot soldiers fell.

  • Judg 5:11
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    11The voices of the archers at the watering places recount the righteous acts of the Lord, the righteous acts of His villagers in Israel. Then the people of the Lord went down to the city gates.

  • Judg 4:5-6
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    5She would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites came up to her for judgment.

    6She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, "Has not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded you: 'Go, lead ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun to Mount Tabor'"?

  • Judg 4:3
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    3The Israelites cried out to the LORD for help, for Sisera had nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the Israelites cruelly for twenty years.

  • Judg 8:33-34
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    33After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals, making Baal-Berith their god.

    34The Israelites did not remember the Lord their God, who had rescued them from the hand of all their enemies on every side.

  • Judg 20:10
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    10We will take ten men out of every hundred, a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand across all the tribes of Israel. They will gather provisions for the army, so we can act against Gibeah in Benjamin for their disgraceful act in Israel.

  • 1 Sam 12:9
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    9But they forgot the LORD their God, so He sold them into the hands of Sisera, the commander of Hazor’s army, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.

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    14Instead, the Benjaminites gathered from their cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the Israelites.

  • Judg 18:16-17
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    16The six hundred men of the Danites, armed with their weapons of war, were standing at the entrance of the gate.

    17The five men who had gone to scout the land went inside and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the cast idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.

  • Hos 10:9
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    9From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, Israel, and there they have remained. Will not war overtake them in Gibeah because of their wickedness?

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    10Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and ten thousand men followed him on foot, and Deborah went up with him.

  • 1 Chr 5:18
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    18The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had valiant men who carried shields and swords, drew bows, and were trained for war. They numbered 44,760 men ready for battle.

  • Judg 4:13-14
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    13Sisera summoned all his chariots—nine hundred chariots made of iron—and all his troops who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the Kishon River.

    14Then Deborah said to Barak, "Get up! This is the day the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone ahead of you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

  • 2 Chr 13:17
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    17Abijah and his army inflicted a severe defeat on them, and five hundred thousand of Israel’s chosen men were killed.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
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    7There, the army of Israel was defeated by David's servants, and the casualties were heavy that day—twenty thousand men.

  • Judg 20:39
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    39When the Israelites turned in the battle, the Benjaminites had begun killing about thirty Israelites and thought, 'We are defeating them as in the first battle.'

  • Judg 18:11
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    11So six hundred men from the Danite clan left Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons for battle.

  • 1 Sam 13:19
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    19No blacksmith could be found throughout the whole land of Israel, because the Philistines said, 'Otherwise, the Hebrews might make swords or spears.'

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    7When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had assembled at Mizpah, their rulers marched up against Israel. When the Israelites heard of this, they were afraid of the Philistines.

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    8War broke out again. David went out to fight the Philistines and struck them with a great slaughter, causing them to flee before him.

  • 1 Sam 11:8
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    8When Saul mustered them at Bezek, there were three hundred thousand Israelites and thirty thousand men of Judah.

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    27And the Israelites inquired of the LORD (the Ark of the Covenant of God was there in those days),

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    19Kings came, they fought; the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver.

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    5When the Ammonites fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.

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    21Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines, facing each other.

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    31The Benjaminites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as they had done before—about thirty men—in the open country, on the roads leading to Bethel and Gibeah.