Leviticus 26:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.”
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“You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`And ye have pursued your enemies, and they have fallen before you by the sword;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 26:7 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 26:36As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
- Deuteronomy 28:7The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.
- Joshua 23:10One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.
- Judges 4:16Then Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and the whole army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.
- Judges 7:23Then the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and they pursued the Midianites.
- Judges 15:15He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.
- 1 Samuel 14:13So Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, with his armor-bearer behind him. And the Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer followed and finished them off.
- 1 Chronicles 19:15When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they too fled before Joab’s brother Abishai, and they entered the city. So Joab went back to Jerusalem.
- Esther 9:16The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
- Psalms 81:15Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
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