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I. GOD'S PEOPLE ARE OFTEN BROUGHT INTO EXTREMITIES.

1. By their own foolish enterprises.

2. By the temptations of their enemies.

3. By the providence of God leading them, to test and train them.

II. GOD'S PEOPLE ARE DELIVERED BY HIM IN EXTREMITIES.

1. By prayer: "They cried unto the Lord."

2. By super-natural power.

(J. Wolfendale.)

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KJV: And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

WEB: Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don't fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you shall not prosper."