Military Might Proves Powerless Against Yahweh's Will

"There is no king saved by the multitude of an host." History furnishes undeniable proof of this divine principle. At the Battle of Arbela, Persian forces mustered between five hundred thousand and one million soldiers—a staggering host arrayed in terrible might. Yet Alexander the Great's disciplined force of merely fifty thousand routed them utterly, and the once-mighty Darius fell vanquished before superior strategy and divine providence.

Consider Napoleon's catastrophic campaign into Russia. He commanded more than half a million men—an army whose numbers seemed invincible. The psalmist might have written of such a host:

"Not such the numbers, nor the host so dread,

By northern Bren, or Scythian Timour led."