23 Bible Verses about Pursuing People

Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword {before you}.

He pursues them [and] passes on [in] peace; he does not enter [the] path with his feet.

And five of you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you shall pursue a myriad; and your enemies shall fall by the sword {before you}.

One of your men put to flight a thousand, for Yahweh your God [is] fighting for you, just as he promised you.

How could one chase a thousand and two could cause a myriad to flee, if their Rock had not sold them, and Yahweh had [not] given them up?

One thousand {because of} a threat of one, {because} of a threat of five you shall flee, until you are left like flagstaff on {top} of mountain, and like signal on hill.

But do not stay [there]; pursue after your enemies and attack them from the rear. Do not allow them to go into their cities, for Yahweh your God has given them into your hand."

Then Gideon came to the Jordan, crossing it with the three hundred men who [were] with him, weary and pursuing.

So the men chased after them on {the way to the Jordan} at the fords; and they shut the gate behind the pursuers that had gone out after them.

I pursued those who hate me, and I destroyed them. I did not turn back until finishing them.

I chased my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were finished [off].

let the enemy of my soul pursue, and overtake and trample my life into the ground, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah

and you said, "No! For we will flee on horses!" Therefore you shall flee! And, "We will ride on swift horses!" Therefore your pursuers shall be swift!

Israel has spurned [the] good; [the] enemy will pursue him.

saying, "His God has abandoned him. Pursue and seize him, because there is no deliverer."

In arrogance [the] wicked persecutes [the] poor. Let them be caught in [the] schemes that they devised,

[The] enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide plunder, my desire will be full [of] them, I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.'

Our pursuers were swifter than [the] eagles of [the] heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they have set an ambush for us in the desert.

Judah has gone into exile with misery and under hard servitude; she lives among the nations, she has not found a resting place; all her pursuers have overtaken her amidst [her] distress.

We are driven on our necks; we are weary, there is no rest for us.

Then Abner called to Joab and said, "Will [the] sword devour forever? Do you not know that [there] will be bitterness in the end? {How long} will you not tell the people to turn {away from pursuing} their brothers?"

Therefore {as I live}," {declares} the Lord Yahweh, "Certainly to blood [guilt] I will prepare you and blood will pursue; {since} {you did not hate blood}, it will pursue you.