But if they tell us to go to them, then we will, because that will be the sign that the LORD has given us victory over them."

He said to David, "What's that stick for? Do you think I'm a dog?" And he called down curses from his god on David.

"Come on," he challenged David, "and I will give your body to the birds and animals to eat."

Abner said to Joab, "Let's have some of the young men from each side fight an armed contest." "All right," Joab answered.

Each man caught his opponent by the head and plunged his sword into his opponent's side, so that all twenty-four of them fell down dead together. And so that place in Gibeon is called "Field of Swords."

Then Amaziah sent messengers to King Jehoash of Israel, challenging him to fight.

Then the man knelt down and worshiped the LORD.

He said, "Praise the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has faithfully kept his promise to my master. The LORD has led me straight to my master's relatives."

"When I came to the well today, I prayed, ' LORD, God of my master Abraham, please give me success in what I am doing.

I knelt down and worshiped the LORD. I praised the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me straight to my master's relative, where I found his daughter for my master's son.

Then Deborah said to Barak, "Go! The LORD is leading you! Today he has given you victory over Sisera." So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with his ten thousand men.

When Gideon heard about the man's dream and what it meant, he fell to his knees and worshiped the LORD. Then he went back to the Israelite camp and said, "Get up! The LORD is giving you victory over the Midianite army!"

When you hear the sound of marching in the treetops, then attack because I will be marching ahead of you to defeat the Philistine army."