23 Bible Verses about Pursuing People

Follow peace with everyone and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:

And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

He pursued them and passed in peace by the way that his feet had never entered.

And five of you shall chase one hundred, and one hundred of you shall put ten thousands to flight; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

One man of you has chased a thousand; for the LORD your God, he himself has fought for you, as he has promised you.

How could one chase a thousand and two put ten thousands to flight if their strong One had not sold them, and the LORD had not delivered them up?

One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five ye shall all flee: until ye are left as a mast upon the top of a mountain and as a banner of example on a hill.

and do not stop, but pursue after your enemies and smite their rearguard without allowing them to enter into their cities; for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.

And Gideon came to pass the Jordan, he and the three hundred men that were with him, faint from the pursuit.

And the men pursued after them along the way to Jordan unto the fords; and as soon as those who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.

I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them and did not return until I had consumed them.

I shall pursue my enemies and overtake them: neither shall I turn again until they are consumed.

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; let him tread down my life upon the earth and lay my honour in the dust. Selah.

But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be even more swift.

Israel has cast off the good; the enemy shall pursue him.

saying, God has forsaken him; persecute and take him for there is no one to deliver him.

The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

Koph Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the heaven; they pursued us upon the mountains; they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Gimel Judah is gone into captivity because of the affliction and because of the greatness of the servitude; she dwells among the Gentiles; she finds no rest; all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

Our necks are under persecution; we are become tired and have no rest.

Then Abner called to Joab and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? Dost thou not know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then before thou bid the people to return from following their brethren?

therefore, as I live, said the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and if thou dost not hate blood, blood shall pursue thee.