Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.
So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle moved on beyond Beth-aven.
So these kings came out with all their armies, a multitude as numerous as the sand on the seashore, along with a great n
On the north side their border began at the Jordan, went up past the northern slope of Jericho, headed west through the
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts,
Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-ave
Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Yo
Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous a
I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of
Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name woul
Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; raise the battle cry in Beth-aven: Lead on, O Benjamin!
The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous pri
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant w