Lexicon :: Strong's H6099 - ʿāṣûm

“Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.

He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are.

“I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.”

“Please come and put a curse on these people for me because they are more powerful than I am. I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that those you bless are blessed and those you curse are cursed.”

The Reubenites and Gadites had a very large number of livestock. When they surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, they saw that the region was a good one for livestock.

“to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance, as is now taking place.

“When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, and he drives out many nations before you ​— ​the Hethites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you ​— ​

“Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and drive out nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.

“Leave me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.’

“the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will drive out nations greater and stronger than you are.

“You are to respond by saying in the presence of the LORD your God:

My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with a few people and resided there as an alien. There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.

“The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and no one is able to stand against you to this day.

So he is oppressed and beaten down;

helpless people fall because of the wicked one’s strength.

I will praise you in the great assembly;

I will exalt you among many people.

He struck down many nations

and slaughtered mighty kings:

For she has brought many down to death;

her victims are countless.[fn]

Casting the lot ends quarrels

and separates powerful opponents.

hyraxes are not a mighty people,

yet they make their homes in the cliffs;

the Lord will certainly bring against them

the mighty rushing water of the Euphrates River —

the king of Assyria and all his glory.

It will overflow its channels

and spill over all its banks.

Therefore I will give him[fn] the many as a portion,

and he will receive[fn] the mighty as spoil,

because he willingly submitted to death,

and was counted among the rebels;

yet he bore the sin of many

and interceded for the rebels.

The least will become a thousand,

the smallest a mighty nation.

I am the LORD;

I will accomplish it quickly in its time.

“His power will be great,

but it will not be his own.

He will cause outrageous destruction

and succeed in whatever he does.

He will destroy the powerful

along with the holy people.

“With a large army he will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South. The king of the South will prepare for battle with an extremely large and powerful army, but he will not succeed, because plots will be made against him.

For a nation has invaded my land,

powerful and without number;

its teeth are the teeth of a lion,

and it has the fangs of a lioness.

a day of darkness and gloom,

a day of clouds and total darkness,

like the dawn spreading over the mountains;

a great and strong people appears,

such as never existed in ages past

and never will again

in all the generations to come.

They bound on the tops of the mountains.

Their sound is like the sound of chariots,

like the sound of fiery flames consuming stubble,

like a mighty army deployed for war.

The LORD makes his voice heard

in the presence of his army.

His camp is very large;

those who carry out his command are powerful.

Indeed, the day of the LORD is terrible and dreadful —

who can endure it?

For I know your crimes are many

and your sins innumerable.

They oppress the righteous, take a bribe,

and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates.

He will settle disputes among many peoples

and provide arbitration for strong nations

that are far away.

They will beat their swords into plows

and their spears into pruning knives.

Nation will not take up the sword against nation,

and they will never again train for war.

I will make the lame into a remnant,

those far removed into a strong nation.

Then the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion

from this time on and forever.

“Many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Armies in Jerusalem and to plead for the LORD’s favor.”