A Psalm of David, when he fled from the presence of his son Absalom. O Lord, why are they that afflict me multiplied? Many rise up against me.

When evildoers drew near against me to eat up my flesh, my persecutors and my enemies, they fainted and fell.

Though an army should set itself in array against me, my heart shall not be afraid; Though war should rise up against me, in this am I confident.

All the nations surrounded me; but in the name of the Lord I repulsed them.

They compassed me about as bees [do] a honeycomb, and they burst into flame as fire among thorns; but in the name of the Lord I repulsed them.

Know, you Gentiles, and be conquered; listen, even to the extremity of the earth; be conquered, after you strengthened yourselves; for even if you should again strengthen yourselves, you shall again be conquered.

And whatever counsel you shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nought; and whatever word you shall speak, it shall not stand among you; for God is with us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

But in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And it came to pass when the children of Israel sowed, that Midian and Amalek went up, and the children of the east went up together with them.

And Zebah and Zalmunna [were] in Karkor, and their armies [were] with them, about fifteen thousand, all that were left of all the army of the aliens; and those that fell [were] a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew the sword.

And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents, eastward of Nobah and Jogbehah; and he attacked the army, while the camp was secure.

And they made war with the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab,

And his substance consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys in the pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was [most] noble of the men of the east.

And Gideon sent messengers into all of Mount Ephraim, saying, Come down to meet Midian, and take to yourselves the water as far as Beth Barah and the Jordan. And every man of Ephraim cried out, and they took the water before hand unto Beth Barah and the Jordan.

then the waters that came down from above stopped; there stood one solid heap very far off, as far as the region of Zaretan, and the lower part came down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, till it completely failed; and the people stood opposite Jericho.

And they said, Mount Ephraim does not please us, and the Canaanite dwelling in it in Beth Shean, and in its villages, [and] in the valley of Jezreel, has choice cavalry and iron.

And their borders were Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,

And it came to pass in the meanwhile, that the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab wept, and went to Jezreel.

And Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, near the threshing floor of Ahab king of Samaria.