The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become,
and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth,
and his heart was filled with pain.
So the Lord said,
“I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth —
men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—
for I am grieved that I have made them.”
Genesis 6:5-7
Matthew 24:37-39
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight
and was full of violence.
God saw how corrupt the earth had become,
for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
So God said to Noah,
“I am going to put an end to all people,
for the earth is filled with violence because of them.
I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.”
Genesis 6:11-13
Every living thing that moved on the earth perished—
birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth,
and all mankind.
Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out;
men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground
and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth.
Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 7:21-24
“Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed;
for in the image of God has God made man.”
Genesis 9:6
As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”
They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city,
with a tower that reaches to the heavens,
so that we may make a name for ourselves
and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
But the Lord came down to see the city
and the tower that the men were building.
The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language
they have begun to do this,
then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
Come, let us go down and confuse their language
so they will not understand each other.”
So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth,
and they stopped building the city.
That is why it was called Babel—
because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world.
From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:2-9
The Lord had said to Abram,
“Leave your country, your people and your father’s household
and go to the land I will show you.
I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you;
I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 12:1-3
As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai,
“I know what a beautiful woman you are.
When the Egyptians see you, they will say,
‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.
Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake
and my life will be spared because of you.”
When Abram came to Egypt,
the Egyptians saw that she was a very beautiful woman.
And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh,
and she was taken into his palace.
He treated Abram well for her sake,
and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys,
menservants and maidservants, and camels.
But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household
because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?”he said.
“Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’
so that I took her to be my wife?
Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
Genesis 12:11-19
Now the men of Sodom were wicked
and were sinning greatly against the Lord.
Genesis 13:13
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits,
and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled,
some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.
The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food;
then they went away.
They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions,
since he was living in Sodom.
One who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew
Genesis 14:10-13
When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive,
he called out the 318 trained men born in his household
and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
During the night Abram divided his men to attack them
and he routed them,
pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
He recovered all the goods
and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions,
together with the women and the other people.
Genesis 14:14-16
Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine.
He was priest of God Most High,
and he blessed Abram, saying,
“Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
And blessed be God Most High,
who delivered your enemies into your hand.”
Genesis 14:18-20
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep,
and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
Then the Lord said to him,
“Know for certain that your descendants
will be strangers in a country not their own,
and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,
and afterward they will come out with great possessions.”
Genesis 15:12-14
The angel of the Lord also said to her:
“You are now with child and you will have a son.
You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery.
He will be a wild donkey of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
Genesis 16:11-12
This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you,
the covenant you are to keep:
Every male among you shall be circumcised.
You are to undergo circumcision,
and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
For the generations to come
every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised,
including those born in your household
or bought with money from a foreigner—
those who are not your offspring.
Whether born in your household or bought with your money,
they must be circumcised.
My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.
Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh,
will be cut off from his people;
he has broken my covenant.
Genesis 17:10-14
Then the Lord said,
“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great
and their sin so grievous
that I will go down and see
if what they have done
is as bad as the outcry that has reached me.
If not, I will know.”
Genesis 18:20
Before they had gone to bed,
all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—
both young and old—surrounded the house.
They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight?
Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said,
“No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.
Genesis 19:4-7
“Get out of our way,” they replied.
And they said, “This fellow came here as an alien,
and now he wants to play the judge!
We’ll treat you worse than them.”
They kept bringing pressure on Lot
and moved forward to break down the door.
But the men inside reached out
and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.
Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old,
with blindness
so that they could not find the door.
Genesis 19:9-11
The two men said to Lot,
“Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters,
or anyone else in the city who belongs to you?
Get them out of here,
because we are going to destroy this place.
The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great
that he has sent us to destroy it.”
So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law,
who were pledged to marry his daughters.
He said, “Hurry and get out of this place,
because the Lord is about to destroy the city!”
But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying,
“Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here,
or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
Genesis 19:12-15
As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said,
“Flee for your lives!
Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain!
Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
Genesis 19:17
Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—
from the Lord out of the heavens.
Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain,
including all those living in the cities—
and also the vegetation in the land.
Genesis 19:24-25
So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab;
he is the father of the Moabites of today.
The younger daughter also had a son,
and she named him Ben-Ammi;
he is the father of the Ammonites of today.
Genesis 19:36-38
Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev
and lived between Kadesh and Shur.
For a while he stayed in Gerar,
and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.”
Then Abimelech king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him,
“You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken;
she is a married woman.”
Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he said,
“Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation?
Genesis 20:1-4
“Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet,
and he will pray for you and you will live.
But if you do not return her,
you may be sure that you and all yours will die.”
Genesis 20:7
Then Abraham prayed to God,
and God healed Abimelech, his wife and his slave girls
so they could have children again,
for the Lord had closed up every womb in Abimelech’s household
because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.
Genesis 20:17-18
“ ‘You will pursue your enemies,
and they will fall by the sword before you.
Five of you will chase a hundred,
and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand,
and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.’ ”
Leviticus 26:7-8
“ ‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me,
I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.
I will send wild animals against you,
and they will rob you of your children,
destroy your cattle and make you so few in number
that your roads will be deserted.
If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction
but continue to be hostile toward me,
I myself will be hostile toward you
and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.
And I will bring the sword upon you
to avenge the breaking of the covenant.’ ”
Leviticus 26:21-25
But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory.
He mustered his entire army
and marched out into the desert against Israel.
When he reached Jahaz, m he fought with Israel.
Israel, however, put him to the sword
and took over his land
from the Arnon to the Jabbok,
but only as far as the Ammonites, because their border was fortified.
Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them,
including Heshbon and all its surrounding settlements.
Numbers 21:23-25
The Lord said to Moses,
“Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites.
After that, you will be gathered to your people.”
So Moses said to the people,
“Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites
and to carry out the Lord's vengeance on them.
Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel.”
So twelve thousand men armed for battle,
a thousand from each tribe, were supplied from the clans of Israel.
Moses sent them into battle,
a thousand from each tribe,
along with Phinehas
son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary
and the trumpets for signaling.
They fought against Midian,
as the Lord commanded Moses,
and killed every man.
Numbers 31:1-7
If they refuse to make peace
and they engage you in battle,
lay siege to that city.
When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand,
put to the sword all the men in it.
Deuteronomy 20:12-13
However, in the cities of the nations
the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance,
do not leave alive anything that breathes.
Completely destroy them—
the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—
as the Lord your God has commanded you.
Deuteronomy 20:16-17
“See now that I myself am He!
There is no god besides me.
I put to death and I bring to life,
I have wounded and I will heal,
and no one can deliver out of my hand.
I lift my hand to heaven and declare:
As surely as I live forever,
when I sharpen my flashing sword
and my hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and repay those who hate me.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
while my sword devours flesh:
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”
Deuteronomy 32:39-42
Rejoice, O nations, with his people,
for he will avenge the blood of his servants;
he will take vengeance on his enemies
and make atonement for his land and people.
Deuteronomy 32:43
“There is no one like the God of Jeshurun,
who rides on the heavens to help you
and on the clouds in his majesty.
The eternal God is your refuge,
and underneath are the everlasting arms.
He will drive out your enemy before you, saying, ‘Destroy him!’ ”
Deuteronomy 33:26-27
“Blessed are you, O Israel!
Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord?
He is your shield and helper and your glorious sword.
Your enemies will cower before you,
and you will trample down their high places.”
Deuteronomy 33:29
David said to the Philistine,
“You come against me with sword and spear and javelin,
but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty,
the God of the armies of Israel,
whom you have defied.”
1Samuel 17:45
“This day the Lord will hand you over to me,
and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head.
Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army
to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth,
and the whole world will know
that there is a God in Israel.”
1Samuel 17:46
“All those gathered here will know
that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves;
for the battle is the Lord's,
and he will give all of you into our hands.”
1Samuel 17:47
As the Philistine moved closer to attack him,
David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.
Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone,
he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead.
The stone sank into his forehead,
and he fell facedown on the ground.
So David triumphed over the Philistine
with a sling and a stone;
without a sword in his hand
he struck down the Philistine and killed him.
1Samuel 17:48-50
David ran and stood over him.
He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the scabbard.
After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.
When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead,
they turned and ran.
Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout
and pursued the Philistines
to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of Ekron.
Their dead were strewn
along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.
1Samuel 17:48-52
and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth,
and his heart was filled with pain.
So the Lord said,
“I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth —
men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—
for I am grieved that I have made them.”
Genesis 6:5-7
Matthew 24:37-39
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight
and was full of violence.
God saw how corrupt the earth had become,
for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
So God said to Noah,
“I am going to put an end to all people,
for the earth is filled with violence because of them.
I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.”
Genesis 6:11-13
Every living thing that moved on the earth perished—
birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth,
and all mankind.
Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out;
men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground
and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth.
Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 7:21-24
“Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed;
for in the image of God has God made man.”
Genesis 9:6
As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”
They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city,
with a tower that reaches to the heavens,
so that we may make a name for ourselves
and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
But the Lord came down to see the city
and the tower that the men were building.
The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language
they have begun to do this,
then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
Come, let us go down and confuse their language
so they will not understand each other.”
So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth,
and they stopped building the city.
That is why it was called Babel—
because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world.
From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:2-9
The Lord had said to Abram,
“Leave your country, your people and your father’s household
and go to the land I will show you.
I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you;
I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 12:1-3
As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai,
“I know what a beautiful woman you are.
When the Egyptians see you, they will say,
‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.
Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake
and my life will be spared because of you.”
When Abram came to Egypt,
the Egyptians saw that she was a very beautiful woman.
And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh,
and she was taken into his palace.
He treated Abram well for her sake,
and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys,
menservants and maidservants, and camels.
But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household
because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?”he said.
“Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’
so that I took her to be my wife?
Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
Genesis 12:11-19
Now the men of Sodom were wicked
and were sinning greatly against the Lord.
Genesis 13:13
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits,
and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled,
some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.
The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food;
then they went away.
They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions,
since he was living in Sodom.
One who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew
Genesis 14:10-13
When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive,
he called out the 318 trained men born in his household
and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
During the night Abram divided his men to attack them
and he routed them,
pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
He recovered all the goods
and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions,
together with the women and the other people.
Genesis 14:14-16
Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine.
He was priest of God Most High,
and he blessed Abram, saying,
“Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
And blessed be God Most High,
who delivered your enemies into your hand.”
Genesis 14:18-20
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep,
and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
Then the Lord said to him,
“Know for certain that your descendants
will be strangers in a country not their own,
and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,
and afterward they will come out with great possessions.”
Genesis 15:12-14
The angel of the Lord also said to her:
“You are now with child and you will have a son.
You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery.
He will be a wild donkey of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
Genesis 16:11-12
This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you,
the covenant you are to keep:
Every male among you shall be circumcised.
You are to undergo circumcision,
and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
For the generations to come
every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised,
including those born in your household
or bought with money from a foreigner—
those who are not your offspring.
Whether born in your household or bought with your money,
they must be circumcised.
My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.
Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh,
will be cut off from his people;
he has broken my covenant.
Genesis 17:10-14
Then the Lord said,
“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great
and their sin so grievous
that I will go down and see
if what they have done
is as bad as the outcry that has reached me.
If not, I will know.”
Genesis 18:20
Before they had gone to bed,
all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—
both young and old—surrounded the house.
They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight?
Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said,
“No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.
Genesis 19:4-7
“Get out of our way,” they replied.
And they said, “This fellow came here as an alien,
and now he wants to play the judge!
We’ll treat you worse than them.”
They kept bringing pressure on Lot
and moved forward to break down the door.
But the men inside reached out
and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.
Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old,
with blindness
so that they could not find the door.
Genesis 19:9-11
The two men said to Lot,
“Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters,
or anyone else in the city who belongs to you?
Get them out of here,
because we are going to destroy this place.
The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great
that he has sent us to destroy it.”
So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law,
who were pledged to marry his daughters.
He said, “Hurry and get out of this place,
because the Lord is about to destroy the city!”
But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying,
“Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here,
or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
Genesis 19:12-15
As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said,
“Flee for your lives!
Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain!
Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
Genesis 19:17
Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—
from the Lord out of the heavens.
Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain,
including all those living in the cities—
and also the vegetation in the land.
Genesis 19:24-25
So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab;
he is the father of the Moabites of today.
The younger daughter also had a son,
and she named him Ben-Ammi;
he is the father of the Ammonites of today.
Genesis 19:36-38
Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev
and lived between Kadesh and Shur.
For a while he stayed in Gerar,
and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.”
Then Abimelech king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him,
“You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken;
she is a married woman.”
Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he said,
“Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation?
Genesis 20:1-4
“Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet,
and he will pray for you and you will live.
But if you do not return her,
you may be sure that you and all yours will die.”
Genesis 20:7
Then Abraham prayed to God,
and God healed Abimelech, his wife and his slave girls
so they could have children again,
for the Lord had closed up every womb in Abimelech’s household
because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.
Genesis 20:17-18
“ ‘You will pursue your enemies,
and they will fall by the sword before you.
Five of you will chase a hundred,
and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand,
and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.’ ”
Leviticus 26:7-8
“ ‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me,
I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.
I will send wild animals against you,
and they will rob you of your children,
destroy your cattle and make you so few in number
that your roads will be deserted.
If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction
but continue to be hostile toward me,
I myself will be hostile toward you
and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.
And I will bring the sword upon you
to avenge the breaking of the covenant.’ ”
Leviticus 26:21-25
But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory.
He mustered his entire army
and marched out into the desert against Israel.
When he reached Jahaz, m he fought with Israel.
Israel, however, put him to the sword
and took over his land
from the Arnon to the Jabbok,
but only as far as the Ammonites, because their border was fortified.
Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them,
including Heshbon and all its surrounding settlements.
Numbers 21:23-25
The Lord said to Moses,
“Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites.
After that, you will be gathered to your people.”
So Moses said to the people,
“Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites
and to carry out the Lord's vengeance on them.
Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel.”
So twelve thousand men armed for battle,
a thousand from each tribe, were supplied from the clans of Israel.
Moses sent them into battle,
a thousand from each tribe,
along with Phinehas
son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary
and the trumpets for signaling.
They fought against Midian,
as the Lord commanded Moses,
and killed every man.
Numbers 31:1-7
If they refuse to make peace
and they engage you in battle,
lay siege to that city.
When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand,
put to the sword all the men in it.
Deuteronomy 20:12-13
However, in the cities of the nations
the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance,
do not leave alive anything that breathes.
Completely destroy them—
the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—
as the Lord your God has commanded you.
Deuteronomy 20:16-17
“See now that I myself am He!
There is no god besides me.
I put to death and I bring to life,
I have wounded and I will heal,
and no one can deliver out of my hand.
I lift my hand to heaven and declare:
As surely as I live forever,
when I sharpen my flashing sword
and my hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and repay those who hate me.
I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
while my sword devours flesh:
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”
Deuteronomy 32:39-42
Rejoice, O nations, with his people,
for he will avenge the blood of his servants;
he will take vengeance on his enemies
and make atonement for his land and people.
Deuteronomy 32:43
“There is no one like the God of Jeshurun,
who rides on the heavens to help you
and on the clouds in his majesty.
The eternal God is your refuge,
and underneath are the everlasting arms.
He will drive out your enemy before you, saying, ‘Destroy him!’ ”
Deuteronomy 33:26-27
“Blessed are you, O Israel!
Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord?
He is your shield and helper and your glorious sword.
Your enemies will cower before you,
and you will trample down their high places.”
Deuteronomy 33:29
David said to the Philistine,
“You come against me with sword and spear and javelin,
but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty,
the God of the armies of Israel,
whom you have defied.”
1Samuel 17:45
“This day the Lord will hand you over to me,
and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head.
Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army
to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth,
and the whole world will know
that there is a God in Israel.”
1Samuel 17:46
“All those gathered here will know
that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves;
for the battle is the Lord's,
and he will give all of you into our hands.”
1Samuel 17:47
As the Philistine moved closer to attack him,
David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.
Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone,
he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead.
The stone sank into his forehead,
and he fell facedown on the ground.
So David triumphed over the Philistine
with a sling and a stone;
without a sword in his hand
he struck down the Philistine and killed him.
1Samuel 17:48-50
David ran and stood over him.
He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the scabbard.
After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.
When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead,
they turned and ran.
Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout
and pursued the Philistines
to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of Ekron.
Their dead were strewn
along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.
1Samuel 17:48-52
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