'Overcome' in the Bible

And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were overcome by Israel, they made peace with David and became his servants: and the Aramaeans would give no more help to the children of Ammon.

Now after this there was war with the Philistines at Gezer; then Sibbecai the Hushathite put to death Sippai, one of the offspring of the Rephaim; and they were overcome.

Is not the Lord your God with you? and has he not given you rest on every side? for the Lord has given the people of the land into my hands, and the land is overcome before the Lord and before his people.

And if your people Israel are overcome in war, because of their sin against you; if they are turned to you again, honouring your name, making prayers and requesting your grace in this house:

And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

So at that time the children of Israel were overcome, and the children of Judah got the better of them, because they put their faith in the Lord, the God of their fathers.

And at the first notes of song and praise the Lord sent a surprise attack against the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were overcome.

You say, See, I have overcome Edom; and your heart is lifted up with pride: now keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?

And Judah was overcome before Israel, and they went in flight, every man to his tent.

But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy:

Then everyone who went in fear of the words of the God of Israel, because of the sin of those who had come back, came together to me; and I kept where I was, overcome with grief, till the evening offering.

For this reason they had given him money, in order that I might be overcome by fear and do what he said and do wrong, and so they would have reason to say evil about me and put shame on me.

Esther’s female servants and her eunuchs came and reported the news to her, and the queen was overcome with fear. She sent clothes for Mordecai to wear so he could take off his sackcloth, but he did not accept them.

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai is Jewish, and you have begun to fall before him, you won’t overcome him, because your downfall is certain.”

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s command and his law reached, joy and rejoicing took place among the Jews. There was a celebration and a holiday. And many of the ethnic groups of the land professed themselves to be Jews because fear of the Jews had overcome them.

That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?

Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.

You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.

He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.

At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.

For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.

For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.

For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

My greatest fears have overcome me; my honor is assaulted as though by a wind storm; my prosperity evaporates like a morning cloud."

Take care that you do not say, Wisdom is here; God may overcome him, but not man.

Fear has overcome them, they have no more answers to give; they have come to an end of words.

Fear of me will not overcome you, and my hand will not be hard on you.

Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him!

When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear.

When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.

Up! O Lord; let not man overcome you: let the nations be judged before you.

The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?

Otherwise, my enemy will say, "I have overcome him;" Otherwise, my persecutor will rejoice when I am shaken.

I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

Let them be overcome and put to shame who make attempts to take my soul; let those who would do me damage be turned back and made foolish.

For I am overcome with shame and my whole body is sick.

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

By this I see that you have pleasure in me, because my hater does not overcome me.

Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.

My heart beats violently within me; the horrors of death overcome me.

From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.

Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

But the godly are happy; they rejoice before God and are overcome with joy.

Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

At the voice of your wrath, O God of Jacob, deep sleep has overcome carriage and horse.

I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)

Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,Like a warrior overcome by wine.

I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

I was afflicted and about to die from my youth on;I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.

The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil.

If a thousand fall at your side or ten thousand at your right hand, it will not overcome you.

O make a new song to the Lord, because he has done works of wonder; with his right hand, and with his holy arm, he has overcome.

Again and again he made them free; but their hearts were turned against his purpose, and they were overcome by their sins.

I am continually overcomewith longing for Your judgments.

You have overcome all those who are wandering from your rules; for all their thoughts are false.

My passion has overcome me; because my haters are turned away from your words.

Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.

When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

My spirit is weak within me;my heart is overcome with dismay.

Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

when terror strikes you like a stormand your calamity comes like a whirlwind,when trouble and stress overcome you.

You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.

With her many persuasions she caused him to yield;With her flattering lips she seduced him.

The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.

They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.

For by wise guiding you will overcome in war: and in a number of wise guides there is salvation.

Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.

Like an archer wounding all who go by, is a foolish man overcome by drink.

Again, I observed this on the earth: the race is not always won by the swiftest, the battle is not always won by the strongest; prosperity does not always belong to those who are the wisest, wealth does not always belong to those who are the most discerning, nor does success always come to those with the most knowledge -- for time and chance may overcome them all.

Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.

Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.

Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.

Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but were not able to overcome it.

Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.

For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.

The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.

My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.

Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.

The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again.

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.

And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.

Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain steps, but not because of strong drink.

What can I say? He has decreed and acted. I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief.

I have sent him out to overcome the nations, and I will make all his ways straight: I will give him the work of building my town, and he will let my prisoners go free, without price or reward, says the Lord of armies.