24 Best Bible Verses about “A Thousand People”
1. Joshua 23:10
One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the Lord your God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you.
2. Deuteronomy 32:30
“How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their Rock had sold them,
And the Lord had given them up?
3. 1 Chronicles 12:14
These of the sons of Gad were captains of the army; he who was least was equal to a hundred and the greatest to a thousand.
4. Amos 5:3
For thus says the Lord God,
“The city which goes forth a thousand strong
Will have a hundred left,
And the one which goes forth a hundred strong
Will have ten left to the house of Israel.”
5. Isaiah 30:17
One thousand will flee at the threat of one man;
You will flee at the threat of five,
Until you are left as a flag on a mountain top
And as a signal on a hill.
6. Judges 9:49
All the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech, and put them on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.
7. Judges 15:15
He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out and took it and killed a thousand men with it.
8. Judges 15:16
Then Samson said,
“With the jawbone of a donkey,
Heaps upon heaps,
With the jawbone of a donkey
I have killed a thousand men.”
9. Psalm 91:7
A thousand may fall at your side
And ten thousand at your right hand,
But it shall not approach you.
10. 1 Chronicles 12:34
Of Naphtali there were 1,000 captains, and with them 37,000 with shield and spear.
11. Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.
12. Deuteronomy 1:11
May the Lord, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold more than you are and bless you, just as He has promised you!
13. 1 Samuel 18:7-8
The women sang as they played, and said,
“Saul has slain his thousands,
And David his ten thousands.”
Then Saul became very angry, for this saying displeased him; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?”
14. 1 Samuel 21:11
But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David the king of the land? Did they not sing of this one as they danced, saying,
‘Saul has slain his thousands,
And David his ten thousands’?”
15. 1 Samuel 29:5
Is this not David, of whom they sing in the dances, saying,
‘Saul has slain his thousands,
And David his ten thousands’?”
16. Exodus 18:21
Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of the fifties, and of tens.
17. Exodus 18:25
Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.
18. Deuteronomy 1:15
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and appointed them heads over you, leaders of thousands and of hundreds, of fifties and of tens, and officers for your tribes.
19. Numbers 31:4
A thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war.”
20. Numbers 31:5
So there were furnished from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
21. Numbers 31:6
Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the war, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war with them, and the holy vessels and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
22. 1 Samuel 13:2
Now Saul chose for himself 3,000 men of Israel, of which 2,000 were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. But he sent away the rest of the people, each to his tent.
23. 2 Samuel 10:6
Now when the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Arameans of Beth-rehob and the Arameans of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob with 12,000 men.
24. 2 Samuel 19:17
There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, with Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they rushed to Jordan before the king.
