1 Kings 20:23

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are gods of the hills: therefore they have overcome us. But it is better that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome them.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree.

Isaiah 42:8

I, the Lord, this is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to graven things.

2 Kings 19:12

Have the gods of the nations delivered any of them, whom my fathers have destroyed, to wit, Gozan, and Haran, and Reseph, and the children of Eden that were in Thelassar?

1 Kings 20:28

(And a man of God coming said to the king of Israel: Thus saith the Lord: Because the Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills, but is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude into thy hand and you shall know that I am the Lord.)

1 Samuel 4:8

Woe to us: for there was no such great joy yesterday and the day before. Woe to us. Who shall deliver us from the hand of these high gods? These are the gods that struck Egypt with all the plagues in the desert.

1 Kings 20:24

Do thou therefore this thing: Remove all the kings from thy army, and put captains in their stead.

1 Kings 20:31

And his servants said to him: Behold, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. So let us put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: perhaps he will save our lives.

Isaiah 36:20

Who is there among all the gods of these lands that hath delivered his country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my might and my strength and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them.