Some of the men of Manasseh defected to David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul.
Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the desert. They were brave warriors, ready for battle and able to handle the shield and spear.
Today, the U.S. is facing a civil war in Libya between the forces of Muammar Qaddafi and of a rebellion, led informally by defected generals and gun-toting civilians, based in the country's east.
Mr Moussa defected to Britain two weeks ago, but was allowed to leave for Doha after he issued a statement calling for "democratic dialogue" to prevent Libya degenerating into another Somalia.
Five generals were among 120 soldiers who defected from Muammar Qaddafi's regime in Libya.
I mean, if you remember in the opening weeks, a whole raft of Libyan diplomats around the world defected.
Last summer, for instance, the state Senate was paralysed for five weeks because a Democrat defected (temporarily, it turned out) to the Republican Party.
The scientist defected to another country.
Hwang has been kept at a secret location under tight security since he defected.
Two Libyan air force pilots have defected to Malta, taking their aircraft with them and claiming that they had refused orders to bombard Benghazi, Cyrenaica's main city.
Eight Libyan military officers defected to Italy on Monday.
Objective: to provide anatomy data for the transposition of vascularized flap of magnus adductor muscle tendon to repair the defected tibial collateral ligament.
Evdokia and her husband Vladimir defected on April 3rd, 1954, making a big international headline and leading to Australia's announcement of the severing of diplomatic ties with the former Soviet Union.
Mangala Samaraweera, a parliamentarian who defected to the opposition from Mr Rajapaksa's party, says his former leader will now "not have the guts" to hold an early poll.
Several of his old allies had defected to Mr Rajoelina’s camp.
A top ranking general defected to the enemy.
Libyan diplomats in most European Union capitals have either been expelled or have defected to the rebels.
Muhammad Khabasha, a rebel leader here who served for 34 years in the Libyan army until he defected to the rebel side in February shortly after the uprising began in the oil-rich North African state.
When we reached Chungyi, battalion commander Yuan Chung-chuan defected with an infantry company and an artillery company, and though the two companies were brought back, our regimental commander Wang Erh-cho lost his life in this action.
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