Leviticus 26:17
26:17 I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.
Leviticus 26:37
26:37 They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though
there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand
for you before your enemies.
Deuteronomy 28:25
Curses by Defeat and Deportation
28:25 “The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:48
28:48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty
you will serve your enemies whom the
Lord will send against you. They
will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.
Joshua 7:8
7:8 If only we had been satisfied to live on the other side of the Jordan! O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated
before its enemies?
Joshua 7:1
Achan Sins and is Punished
7:1 But the Israelites disobeyed the command about the city’s riches. Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, stole some of the riches. The Lord was furious with the Israelites.
Joshua 8:33-34
8:33 All the people,
rulers,
leaders, and judges were standing on either side of the ark, in front of the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the
Lord. Both resident foreigners and native Israelites were there.
Half the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the
Lord’s servant had previously instructed to them to do for the formal blessing ceremony.
8:34 Then
Joshua read aloud all the words of the law, including the blessings and the curses, just as they are written in the law scroll.
Psalms 44:10
44:10 You made us retreat from the enemy.
Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.