Joshua 10:19
But don't you delay! Chase your enemies and catch them! Don't allow them to retreat to their cities, for the Lord your God is handing them over to you."
Joshua 10:20
Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.
2 Samuel 17:13
If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!"
2 Samuel 20:6
Then David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba son of Bicri will cause greater disaster for us than Absalom did! Take your lord's servants and pursue him. Otherwise he will secure fortified cities for himself and get away from us."
Psalm 18:37-41
I chase my enemies and catch them; I do not turn back until I wipe them out.
Isaiah 9:14-15
So the Lord cut off Israel's head and tail, both the shoots and stalk in one day.
Jeremiah 8:14
The people say, "Why are we just sitting here? Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. Let us at least die there fighting, since the Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment because we have sinned against him.
Jeremiah 48:10
A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the Lord's work! A curse on anyone who keeps from carrying out his destruction!