Protection


4. Protection from your enemies:
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A. The Lord will protect the obedient from their enemies:

EXO 14:14. The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

EXO 23:22. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

2SA 22:49. And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

2KI 17:39. But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

2CH 32:8. With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

PSA 18:16. He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

PSA 18:17. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

PSA 35:1. Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

PSA 35:2. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

PSA 35:3. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

PSA 35:4. Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

PSA 35:5. Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

PSA 35:6. Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

PSA 41:2. The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

PSA 97:10. Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

PSA 138:7. Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

JER 39:17. But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.

B. Even though they fight you you will be safe:

DEU 3:22. Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.

DEU 20:1. When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

DEU 20:3. And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

DEU 20:4. For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

PSA 3:6. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

PSA 21:8. Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

PSA 21:11. For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

PSA 37:32. The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

PSA 37:33. The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

PSA 118:13. Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

ISA 54:17. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

JER 1:19. And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

PSA 2:1. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

PSA 2:2. The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

PSA 2:3. Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

PSA 2:4. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.

PSA 2:5. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

C. God can cause your enemies to fall & fail:

2CH 20:12. O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.

2CH 20:13. And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

2CH 20:14. Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;

2CH 20:15. And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

2CH 20:16. To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

2CH 20:17. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.

2CH 20:18. And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

2CH 20:19. And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.

2CH 20:20. And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

2CH 20:21. And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.

2CH 20:22. And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

JOB 5:12. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

JOB 5:13. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

ISA 8:10. Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

ISA 7:7. Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

ISA 41:11. Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

ISA 41:12. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.

ISA 41:13. For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

ISA 54:15. Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.

ISA 54:17. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

D. He can warn your enemies to not hurt you:

GEN 31:22. And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

GEN 31:23. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

GEN 31:24. And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

GEN 31:29. It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

MAT 27:19. When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.

GEN 12:14. And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

GEN 12:15. The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

GEN 12:16. And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

GEN 12:17. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

GEN 12:18. And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

GEN 12:19. Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

GEN 12:20. And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

GEN 20:1. And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

GEN 20:2. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

GEN 20:3. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

GEN 20:4. But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?

GEN 20:5. Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

GEN 20:6. And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

GEN 20:7. Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

GEN 20:8. Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.

E. The Lord can protect you while judging your enemies:

GEN 19:22. Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

GEN 19:23. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

GEN 19:24. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

GEN 19:25. And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

EXO 8:22. And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.

EXO 9:26. Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

EXO 11:7. But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

JOS 6:20. So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

JOS 6:21. And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

JOS 6:22. But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.

JOS 2:12. Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:

JOS 2:13. And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

JOS 2:14. And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.

JOS 2:15. Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

PSA 78:43. How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan.

PSA 78:44. And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

PSA 78:45. He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

PSA 78:46. He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

PSA 78:47. He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

PSA 78:48. He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

PSA 78:49. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

PSA 78:50. He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

PSA 78:51. And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

PSA 78:52. But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

PSA 78:53. And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

PSA 91:7. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.