Quotes about Overtake
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
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
When the steward overtook them, he relayed these words to them.
- Genesis 44:6
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
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
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
Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
- 2 Kings 7:9
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 battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him.
- 1 Chronicles 10:3
then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah
- Psalm 7:5
What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
- Proverbs 10:24
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