Quotes about Overtake
then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.
— Jeremiah 42:16
The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
— Exodus 15:9
Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
— Genesis 19:19
And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”
— 2 Samuel 15:14
So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.
— Judges 20:42
but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.
— 2 Kings 25:5
When the steward overtook them, he relayed these words to them.
— Genesis 44:6
When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him.
— 1 Chronicles 10:3
Then from the mouth of the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.
— Revelation 12:15
They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
— Genesis 44:4
Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?
— Hosea 10:9
But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”
— Zechariah 1:6