1 Samuel 17:11

17:11 When Saul and all the Israelites ¹  heard these words of the Philistine, they were upset and very afraid.

Leviticus 26:36

26:36 “‘As for ²  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.

Numbers 13:33

13:33 We even saw the Nephilim ³  there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves ⁴  and to them.” ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 32:30

32:30 How can one man chase a thousand of them, ⁶ 

and two pursue ten thousand;

unless their Rock had delivered them up, ⁷ 

and the Lord had handed them over?

Isaiah 7:2

7:2 It was reported to the family ⁸  of David, “Syria has allied with ⁹  Ephraim.” They and their people were emotionally shaken, just as the trees of the forest shake before the wind. ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 30:17

30:17 One thousand will scurry at the battle cry of one enemy soldier; ¹¹ 

at the battle cry of five enemy soldiers you will all run away, ¹² 

until the remaining few are as isolated ¹³ 

as a flagpole on a mountaintop

or a signal flag on a hill.”

¹ tn Heb “all Israel.”

² tn Heb “And.”

³ tc The Greek version uses gigantes (“giants”) to translate “the Nephilim,” but it does not retain the clause “the sons of Anak are from the Nephilim.”

⁴ tn Heb “in our eyes.”

⁵ tn Heb “in their eyes.”

⁶ tn The words “man” and “of them” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “sold them” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

⁸ tn Heb “house.” In this context the “house of David” includes King Ahaz, his family, and the royal court. See also Jer 21:12; Zech 12:7-8, 10, 12, for a similar use of the phrase.

⁹ tn Heb “rests upon.” Most understand the verb as נוּחַ (nuakh, “rest”), but HALOT 685 s.v. II נחה proposes that this is a hapax legomenon which means “stand by.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and his heart shook and the heart of his people shook, like the shaking of the trees of the forest before the wind.” The singular pronoun “his” is collective, referring to the Davidic house/family. לֵבָב (levav, “heart”) here refers to the seat of the emotions.

¹¹ tn Heb “One thousand from before [or “because of”] one battle cry.” גְּעָרָה (gÿ’arah) is often defined as “threat,” but in war contexts it likely refers to a shout or battle cry. See Ps 76:6.

¹² tn Heb “from before [or “because of”] the battle cry of five you will flee.

¹³ tn Heb “until you are left” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV).