They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

They again challenged God, and offended the Holy One of Israel.

In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the desert.

Joshua and all Israel pretended to be defeated by them and they retreated along the way to the desert.

The five Amorite kings ran away and hid in the cave at Makkedah.

Judah was defeated by Israel, and each man ran back home.

Judah was defeated by Israel, and each man ran back home.

Yet they challenged and defied the sovereign God, and did not obey his commands.

And when the ark traveled, Moses would say, “Rise up, O Lord! May your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you!”

So about three thousand men went up, but they fled from the men of Ai.

When all the men of Israel saw this man, they retreated from his presence and were very afraid.

Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel. The men of Israel fled from the Philistines and many of them fell dead on Mount Gilboa.

So Joab and his men marched out to do battle with the Arameans, and they fled before him.

The Lord struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah. The Cushites fled,

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, but some survivors fled to the hills.

Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.

So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers fell in battle.

Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly and they ran away from him.

When the Ammonites saw the Arameans flee, they fled before his brother Abishai and went into the city. Joab withdrew from fighting the Ammonites and returned to Jerusalem.

So Absalom’s servants did to Amnon exactly what Absalom had instructed. Then all the king’s sons got up; each one rode away on his mule and fled.