27 occurrences

'Overturned' in the Bible

But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:

Verse ConceptsAbolitionStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

And your family and your kingdom will keep their place before me for ever: the seat of your authority will never be overturned.

Verse ConceptsHousesStabilityChrist Reigning ForeverThe Dynasty Of DavidThe Kingdom Of Solomon

The same day he gave them a sign, saying, This is the sign which the Lord has given: See, the altar will be broken and the burned waste on it overturned.

Verse ConceptsSplitting RocksAshes Of SacrificesBurning Idolatrous ThingsThings As Signs

And the altar was broken and the burned waste on it overturned; this was the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSplitting RocksAshes Of SacrificesBurning Idolatrous Things

But I will make his place in my house and in my kingdom certain for ever; and the seat of his authority will never be overturned.

Verse ConceptsHouses

Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

Verse ConceptsGod Drying Things UpFloods

As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyGaps

By him Pharaoh and his army were overturned in the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Verse Conceptsarmy

Evil-doers are overturned and never seen again, but the house of upright men will keep its place.

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstHomeRighteous, ThePeople Passing AwaygaysProtecting Your Family

Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Warfare, ArmourSin, Consequences OfFruits Of RighteousnessSin Clings To The Sinner

The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.

Verse ConceptsHomeUprightnessDestruction Of The WickedDestruction Of Houses

The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfGod Seeing The Wicked

The eyes of the Lord keep knowledge, but by him the acts of the false man will be overturned.

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing All The EarthMental Abusepreservationtraitors

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

Verse ConceptsOppressorsAuthorityNot Helping The PoorInjusticeoppressionsurprises

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.

Verse ConceptsForeignersPeace, Human Destruction OfPoverty, Causes OfDestruction Of CountriesBurning CitiesSuffering From ForeignersStrangers in israelAliens

May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toNoonThings Like People

And all the valley of the dead bodies, and all the field of death as far as the stream Kidron, up to the angle of the horses' doorway to the east, will be holy to the Lord; it will not again be uprooted or overturned for ever.

Verse ConceptsNamed GatesHoly LandJerusalem In Millennial Kingdom

Give a loud cry against her on every side; she has given herself up, her supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord; give her payment; as she has done, so do to her.

Verse ConceptsTowersWallsMan AvengingLet Evil ReboundRevengeSurrenderTreating Others

As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.

Verse ConceptsEmpty Cities

For the punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overturned suddenly without any hand falling on her.

Verse ConceptsSodom And GomorrahSudden DestructionGod's People SinningPunishments

I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed.

Verse ConceptsNakednessDestruction Of Satan's WorksPeople Stripping PeopleTo Be Given Into One's Handsjewelry

I will let it be overturned, overturned, overturned: this will not be again till he comes whose right it is; and I will give it to him.

Verse ConceptsRuinsDestruction Of JerusalemThe Fact Of His Coming

So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.

Verse ConceptsSeaMountains RemovedGod ShakingBoth Men And Animals AffectedPutting Things DownBirdsFish

It made itself great, even as great as the lord of the army; and by it the regular burned offering was taken away, and the place overturned and the holy place made waste.

Verse ConceptsPrincesDestruction Of The Temple

Overturning the power of kingdoms; and I will send destruction on the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; by me war-carriages will be overturned with those who are in them; and the horses and the horsemen will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.

Verse ConceptsChariotsBackKingdomsUnreliabilityRiding HorsesDestroying ChariotsDeposingKilling One Another

Bible Theasaurus

Annul (14 instances)
Overrule (1 instance)
Overthrow (51 instances)
Overturn (7 instances)
Overturned (46 instances)
Rescind (1 instance)
Reverse (34 instances)
Revoke (22 instances)
Subvert (8 instances)
Upset (50 instances)
Vacate (1 instance)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain