Leviticus 26:7-8

26:7 You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword. 26:8 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.

Deuteronomy 28:7

28:7 The 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.

Deuteronomy 32:30

32:30 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?

Joshua 23:10

23:10 One of you makes a thousand run away, for the Lord your God fights for you as he promised you he would.

Romans 8:31

8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?


tn Heb “to the sword.”

tn Heb “who rise up against” (so NIV).

tn Heb “way” (also later in this verse and in v. 25).

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

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

tn Or “chases a thousand.”

tn Heb “for the Lord your God, he [is] the one who fights for you.”

tn Heb “as he said to you.”