Leviticus 26:37
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.
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- Josh 7:12-13 : 12 The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. I will no longer be with you, unless you destroy what has contaminated you. 13 Get up! Ritually consecrate the people and tell them this:‘Ritually consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because this is what the LORD God of Israel has said,“You are contaminated, O Israel! You will not be able to stand before your enemies until you remove what is contaminating you.”
- 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 7:22 : 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.
- 1 Sam 14:15-16 : 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.
- Isa 10:4 : 4 You will have no place to go, except to kneel with the prisoners, or to fall among those who have been killed. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.
- Jer 37:10 : 10 For even if you were to defeat all the Babylonian forces fighting against you so badly that only wounded men were left lying in their tents, they would get up and burn this city down.”’”
- Num 14:42 : 42 Do not go up, for the LORD is not among you, and you will be defeated before your enemies.
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36“‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.
- Lev 26:7-82 verses85%
7You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.
8Five 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.
- Lev 26:38-392 verses83%
38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.
39Restoration through Confession and Repentance“‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ iniquities which are with them.
- Lev 26:16-172 verses82%
16I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.
17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.
- Deut 28:25-262 verses79%
25Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
26Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.
- Joel 2:7-82 verses78%
7They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. Each one proceeds on his course; they do not alter their path.
8They do not jostle one another; each of them marches straight ahead. They burst through the city defenses and do not break ranks.
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14Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.
15Everyone who is caught will be stabbed; everyone who is seized will die by the sword.
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16I 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.’
- Lev 26:32-332 verses76%
32I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.
33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
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40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.
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25Nobody will be able to resist you; the LORD your God will spread the fear and terror of you over the whole land on which you walk, just as he promised you.
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7The LORD will cause your enemies who attack you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction but flee from you in seven different directions.
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17One 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.”
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12When you will look for your opponents, you will not find them; your enemies will be reduced to absolutely nothing.
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43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, the LORD will not be with you.”
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25Do not go out into the countryside. Do not travel on the roads. For the enemy is there with sword in hand. They are spreading terror everywhere.”
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16All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.
17They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.
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25Your men will fall by the sword, your strong men will die in battle.
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8Their slander will bring about their demise. All who see them will shudder,
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9“The LORD drove out from before you great and mighty nations; no one has been able to resist you to this very day.
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65Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.
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5But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.
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9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.
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27Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
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5And they will be like warriors trampling the mud of the streets in battle. They will fight, for the LORD will be with them, and will defeat the enemy cavalry.
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14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.
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8Assyria will fall by a sword, but not one human-made; a sword not made by humankind will destroy them. They will run away from this sword and their young men will be forced to do hard labor.
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15Archers will not hold their ground; fast runners will not save their lives, nor will those who ride horses.
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5“What do I see! The soldiers are frightened. They are retreating. They are being scattered. They have fled for refuge without looking back. Terror is all around them,” says the LORD.
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10I will shock many peoples with you, and their kings will shiver with horror because of you. When I brandish my sword before them, every moment each one will tremble for his life, on the day of your fall.
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38I beat them to death; they fall at my feet.
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15The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside the house. Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword, and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city.
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13On that day there will be great confusion from the LORD among them; they will seize each other and attack one another violently.
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25Terror is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.
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43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.
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20Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.
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27Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.
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26Those who share the king’s fine food will attempt to destroy him, and his army will be swept away; many will be killed in battle.
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27“I will send my terror before you, and I will alarm all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
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11With his horses’ hoofs he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will tumble down to the ground.
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3“Listen, Israel! Today you are moving forward to do battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted. Do not fear and tremble or be terrified because of them,
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17All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine.