Quotes About Defeat

Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.

When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple,

When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down upon himself. So he died

and each one struck down his opponent. So the Arameans fled, with the Israelites in pursuit. But Ben-hadad king of Aram escaped on horseback with the cavalry.

The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.

Sullen and angry, the king of Israel went home to Samaria.

When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not prevail.

So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night. His troops, however, fled to their homes.

Then Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.

But they were terrified and reasoned, “If two kings could not stand against him, how can we?”

In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory

You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Glory in that and stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”

And Judah was routed before Israel, and every man fled to his home.

He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from watchtower to fortified city.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.

but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.

And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

During the days of Saul they waged war against the Hagrites, who were defeated at their hands, and they occupied the homes of the Hagrites throughout the region east of Gilead.

Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saulís sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him.

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run it through me, or these uncircumcised men will come and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.