'Seized' in the Bible

But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the water well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

When Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

The king of the Ammonites said to Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came from Egypt, they seized my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and the Jordan. Now restore it peaceably.”

they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 from Ephraim died.

The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he was forced to grind grain in the prison.

But the men would not listen to him, so the man seized his concubine and took her outside to them. They raped her and abused her all night until morning. At daybreak they let her go.

when the person told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ he thought he was a bearer of good news, but I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was my reward to him for his news!

He seized the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the treasuries of the royal palace. He took everything. He took all the gold shields that Solomon had made.

Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let even one of them escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Wadi Kishon and slaughtered them there.

The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.

Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and seized it.

So King Shishak of Egypt went to war against Jerusalem. He seized the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the treasuries of the royal palace. He took everything. He took the gold shields that Solomon had made.

I was at ease, but He shattered me;He seized me by the scruff of the neckand smashed me to pieces.He set me up as His target;

For he oppressed and abandoned the poor;he seized a house he did not build.

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.

Now my life is poured out before my eyes,and days of suffering have seized me.

Yet now you are obsessed with the judgment due the wicked;judgment and justice have seized you.

Trembling seized them there,agony like that of a woman in labor,

They were seized with craving in the wildernessand tested God in the desert.

As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms,whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

We have heard about it,and we are discouraged.Distress has seized us—pain like a woman in labor.

You deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived.You seized me and prevailed.I am a laughingstock all the time;everyone ridicules me.

All your wives and sons will be brought out to the Chaldeans. You yourself will not escape from them, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon and this city will burn down.’”

The towns have been captured,and the strongholds seized.In that day the heart of Moab’s warriorswill be like the heart of a woman with contractions.

Damascus has become weak;she has turned to run;panic has gripped her.Distress and labor pains have seized herlike a woman in labor.

The king of Babylon has heard reports about them,and his hands fall helpless.Distress has seized him—pain, like a woman in labor.

The fords have been seized,the marshes set on fire,and the soldiers are terrified.

How Sheshach has been captured,the praise of the whole earth seized.What a horror Babylon has becomeamong the nations!

The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.

י YodThe adversary has seizedall her precious belongings.She has even seen the nationsenter her sanctuary—those You had forbiddento enter Your assembly.

They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. Since they executed judgment against her, she became notorious among women.

So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

And the others seized his slaves, treated them outrageously and killed them.

So they seized him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.

For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was guarded, bound by chains and shackles, he would snap the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.

They seized Him, led Him away, and brought Him into the high priest’s house. Meanwhile Peter was following at a distance.

As they led Him away, they seized Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.

He spoke these words by the treasury, while teaching in the temple complex. But no one seized Him, because His hour had not come.

So they seized them and put them in custody until the next day, since it was already evening.

When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

Then they all seized Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judge’s bench. But none of these things concerned Gallio.

As the seven days were about to end, the Jews from Asia saw him in the temple complex, stirred up the whole crowd, and seized him,

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple complex, and at once the gates were shut.

When this man had been seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them, I arrived with my troops and rescued him because I learned that he is a Roman citizen.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple complex and were trying to kill me.

He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for 1,000 years.