'Pursue' in the Bible
As they journeyed, there was a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
“The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;My desire shall be gratified against them;I will draw out my sword, my hand will destroy them.’
Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue, that you may live and possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
otherwise the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in the heat of his anger, and overtake him, because the way is long, and take his life, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously.
The Lord will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.
“So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
It came about when it was time to shut the gate at dark, that the men went out; I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.”
And all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
but do not stay there yourselves; pursue your enemies and attack them in the rear. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for the Lord your God has delivered them into your hand.”
He said to them, “Pursue them, for the Lord has given your enemies the Moabites into your hands.” So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan opposite Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross.
Should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, then the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; but the lives of your enemies He will sling out as from the hollow of a sling.
David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I pursue this band? Shall I overtake them?” And He said to him, “Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and you will surely rescue all.”
Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Please let me choose 12,000 men that I may arise and pursue David tonight.
And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom; take your lord’s servants and pursue him, so that he does not find for himself fortified cities and escape from our sight.”
So Joab’s men went out after him, along with the Cherethites and the Pelethites and all the mighty men; and they went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
As soon as he was removed from the highway, all the men passed on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”
“Will You cause a driven leaf to tremble?Or will You pursue the dry chaff?
“Terrors are turned against me;They pursue my honor as the wind,And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjamite.O Lord my God, in You I have taken refuge;Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it;And let him trample my life down to the groundAnd lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
In pride the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted;Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.
Depart from evil and do good;Seek peace and pursue it.
Draw also the spear and the battle-axe to meet those who pursue me;Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”
Saying, “God has forsaken him;Pursue and seize him, for there is no one to deliver.”
So pursue them with Your tempestAnd terrify them with Your storm.
Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink,Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!
And you said, “No, for we will flee on horses,”Therefore you shall flee!“And we will ride on swift horses,”Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.
“Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,Who seek the Lord:Look to the rock from which you were hewnAnd to the quarry from which you were dug.
I will pursue them with the sword, with famine and with pestilence; and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a horror and a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
You will pursue them in anger and destroy themFrom under the heavens of the Lord!
therefore as I live,” declares the Lord God, “I will give you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.
“She will pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them;And she will seek them, but will not find them.Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband,For it was better for me then than now!’
But with an overflowing floodHe will make a complete end of its site,And will pursue His enemies into darkness.
What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith;
Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.
Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness.
Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.
“He must turn away from evil and do good;He must seek peace and pursue it.