Deuteronomy 32:30

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How can one man chase a thousand of them, and two pursue ten thousand; unless their Rock had delivered them up, and the LORD had handed them over?

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  • Lev 26:8 : 8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
  • Josh 23:10 : 10 One of you makes a thousand run away, for the LORD your God fights for you as he promised you he would.
  • Ps 44:12 : 12 You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them.
  • Isa 30:17 : 17 One thousand will scurry at the battle cry of one enemy soldier; at the battle cry of five enemy soldiers you will all run away, until the remaining few are as isolated as a flagpole on a mountaintop or a signal flag on a hill.”
  • Judg 2:14 : 14 The LORD was furious with Israel and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. He turned them over to their enemies who lived around them. They could no longer withstand their enemies’ attacks.
  • Judg 3:8 : 8 The LORD was furious with Israel and turned them over to King Cushan-Rishathaim of Armon-Haraim. They were Cushan-Rishathaim’s subjects for eight years.
  • Judg 7:22-23 : 22 When the three hundred men blew their trumpets, the LORD caused the Midianites to attack one another with their swords throughout the camp. The army fled to Beth Shittah on the way to Zererah. They went to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath. 23 Israelites from Naphtali, Asher, and Manasseh answered the call and chased the Midianites.
  • 1 Sam 14:15-17 : 15 Then fear overwhelmed those who were in the camp, those who were in the field, all the army in the garrison, and the raiding bands. They trembled and the ground shook. This fear was caused by God. 16 Saul’s watchmen at Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin looked on as the crowd of soldiers seemed to melt away first in one direction and then in another. 17 So Saul said to the army that was with him,“Muster the troops and see who is no longer with us.” When they mustered the troops, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.
  • 2 Chr 24:24 : 24 Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak, the LORD handed over to them Judah’s very large army, for the people of Judah had abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors. The Syrians gave Joash what he deserved.
  • Job 11:10 : 10 If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?
  • Job 16:11 : 11 God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.
  • Ps 31:8 : 8 You do not deliver me over to the power of the enemy; you enable me to stand in a wide open place.
  • Isa 50:1 : 1 This is what the LORD says:“Where is your mother’s divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother.
  • Isa 52:3 : 3 For this is what the LORD says:“You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed for money.”
  • Matt 18:25 : 25 Because he was not able to repay it, the lord ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, children, and whatever he possessed, and repayment to be made.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 31 For our enemies’ rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.

  • 77%

    27 But I fear the reaction of their enemies, for their adversaries would misunderstand and say,“Our power is great, and the LORD has not done all this!”’

    28 They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.

    29 I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”

  • 73%

    36 The LORD will judge his people, and will change his plans concerning his servants; when he sees that their power has disappeared, and that no one is left, whether confined or set free.

    37 He will say,“Where are their gods, the rock in whom they sought security,

  • 32 Indeed, who is God besides the LORD? Who is a protector besides our God?

  • Josh 23:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9 “The LORD drove out from before you great and mighty nations; no one has been able to resist you to this very day.

    10 One of you makes a thousand run away, for the LORD your God fights for you as he promised you he would.

  • 10 For we heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan.

  • 16 Fear and dread will fall on them; by the greatness of your arm they will be as still as stone until your people pass by, O LORD, until the people whom you have bought pass by.

  • Isa 30:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16 You say,‘No, we will flee on horses,’ so you will indeed flee. You say,‘We will ride on fast horses,’ so your pursuers will be fast.

    17 One thousand will scurry at the battle cry of one enemy soldier; at the battle cry of five enemy soldiers you will all run away, until the remaining few are as isolated as a flagpole on a mountaintop or a signal flag on a hill.”

  • Lev 26:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7 You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.

    8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

  • 12 The men of Judah captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them over. All the captives fell to their death.

  • 31 Indeed, who is God besides the LORD? Who is a protector besides our God?

  • 15 For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”

  • 21 They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions; he makes water flow out of a rock for them; he splits open a rock and water flows out.’

  • 9 “But they forgot the LORD their God, so he gave them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s army, and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

  • 18 You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.

  • 11 Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!

  • 10 Have you not rejected us, O God? O God, you do not go into battle with our armies.

  • 27 The everlasting God is a refuge, and underneath you are his eternal arms; he has driven out enemies before you, and has said,“Destroy!”

  • 9 When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the LORD had given them.

  • Jer 46:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15 Why will your soldiers be defeated? They will not stand because I, the LORD, will thrust them down.

    16 I will make many stumble. They will fall over one another in their hurry to flee. They will say,‘Get up! Let’s go back to our own people. Let’s go back to our homelands because the enemy is coming to destroy us.’

  • 27 Divide the plunder into two parts, one for those who took part in the war– who went out to battle– and the other for all the community.

  • 2 He said:“The LORD is my high ridge, my stronghold, my deliverer.

  • 15 Indeed, it was the very hand of the LORD that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

  • 7 Why do you frustrate the intent of the Israelites to cross over into the land which the LORD has given them?

  • 35 They remembered that God was their protector, and that God Most High was their deliverer.

  • 15 and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

  • 2 if the LORD had not been on our side, when men attacked us,

  • 25 He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving, and the Egyptians said,“Let’s flee from Israel, for the LORD fights for them against Egypt!”

  • 14 The LORD was furious with Israel and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. He turned them over to their enemies who lived around them. They could no longer withstand their enemies’ attacks.

  • 7 When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.

  • 37 They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand for you before your enemies.

  • 8 “If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought,“then the other camp will be able to escape.”

  • 5 The LORD will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

  • 10 The LORD routed them before Israel. Israel thoroughly defeated them at Gibeon. They chased them up the road to the pass of Beth Horon and struck them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah.

  • 1 By David. The LORD, my protector, deserves praise– the one who trains my hands for battle, and my fingers for war,

  • 8 O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated before its enemies?

  • 20 Yes, he struck a rock and water flowed out, streams gushed forth. But can he also give us food? Will he provide meat for his people?”