1 Samuel 26:8

Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”

However he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. As many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his sandals that were on his feet.

His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’ ”

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.

There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

Jethro said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,

Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,

After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,

Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.

David’s men said to him, “Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’ ” Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe secretly.

Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, “Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’ ”

He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army: he who was least was equal to one hundred, and the greatest to one thousand.

For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance.

God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”

All flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.” ’

I will make you a bare rock. You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more; for I Yahweh have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.

Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.

Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body.

He counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”

Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.

David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt.

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”

Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.

The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.

Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, “Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man will know it. Why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?”

Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?

Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.

Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.

You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me.

Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, “All is well.” He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!”

David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?”

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One among you; and I will not come in wrath.

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.