Deuteronomy 2:32
2:32 When Sihon and all his troops
emerged to encounter us in battle at Jahaz,
Joshua 7:5
7:5 The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them and chased them from in front of the city gate all the way to the fissures
and defeated them on the steep slope.
The people’s
courage melted away like water.
Joshua 11:19-20
11:19 No city made peace with the Israelites (except the Hivites living in Gibeon);
they had to conquer all of them,
11:20 for the
Lord determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses.
Psalms 44:3-4
44:3 For they did not conquer the land by their swords,
and they did not prevail by their strength,
but rather by your power, strength and good favor,
for you were partial to them.
44:4 You are my king, O God!
Decree Jacob’s deliverance!