Lexicon :: Strong's G1377 - diōkō

And he and his servants deployed against them by night, defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hobah to the north of Damascus.

So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

The enemy said:

“I will pursue, I will overtake,

I will divide the spoil.

My desire will be gratified at their expense.

I will draw my sword;

my hand will destroy[fn] them.”

“You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.

“I will turn[fn] against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you.

“I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing them.

“Pursue justice and justice alone, so that you will live and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you.

“Otherwise, the avenger of blood in the heat of his anger[fn] might pursue the one who committed manslaughter, overtake him because the distance is great, and strike him dead. Yet he did not deserve to die,[fn] since he did not previously hate his neighbor.

“The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.

How could one pursue a thousand,

or two put ten thousand to flight,

unless their Rock had sold them,

unless the LORD had given them up?

The men pursued them along the road to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they left to pursue them, the city gate was shut.

“One of you routed a thousand because the LORD your God was fighting for you, as he promised.[fn]

Barak pursued the chariots and the army as far as Harosheth of the Nations, and the whole army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.

When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come and I will show you the man you are looking for.” So he went in with her, and there was Sisera lying dead with a tent peg through his temple!

He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give some loaves of bread to the troops under my command,[fn] because they are exhausted, for I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them. He captured these two kings of Midian and routed the entire army.

Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab restrained them.

So Joab’s men, the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the warriors marched out under Abishai’s command;[fn] they left Jerusalem to pursue Sheba son of Bichri.

Amasa was not on guard against the sword in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach with it and spilled his intestines out on the ground. Joab did not stab him again, and Amasa died.

Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

When he was removed from the highway, all the men passed by and followed Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bichri.

They replied to the king, “As for the man who annihilated us and plotted to destroy us so we would not exist within the whole territory of Israel,

I pursue my enemies and destroy them;

I do not turn back until they are wiped out.

So Gad went to David, told him the choices, and asked him, “Do you want three[fn] years of famine to come on your land, to flee from your foes three months while they pursue you, or to have a plague in your land three days? Now, consider carefully[fn] what answer I should take back to the one who sent me.”

So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and asked, “Is everything all right? ”

When King Ahaziah of Judah saw what was happening, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too! ” So they shot him in his chariot[fn] at Gur Pass near Ibleam, but he fled to Megiddo and died there.

the Chaldean army pursued him and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah’s entire army left him and scattered.

Everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me, because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles, while I sat devastated until the evening offering.

Why do you persecute me as God does?

Will you never get enough of my flesh?

LORD my God, I seek refuge in you;

save me from all my pursuers and rescue me,

Turn away from evil and do what is good;

seek peace and pursue it.

“If you are wise, you are wise for your own benefit;

if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences.”

The one who works his land will have plenty of food,

but whoever chases fantasies lacks sense.

The LORD detests the way of the wicked,

but he loves the one who pursues righteousness.

Making a fortune through a lying tongue

is a vanishing mist,[fn] a pursuit of death.[fn][fn]

The wicked flee when no one is pursuing them,

but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

The one who works his land

will have plenty of food,

but whoever chases fantasies

will have his fill of poverty.

Whatever is, has already been, and whatever will be, already is. However, God seeks justice for the persecuted.[fn]

Your rulers are rebels,

friends of thieves.

They all love graft

and chase after bribes.

They do not defend the rights of the fatherless,

and the widow’s case never comes before them.

Woe to those who rise early in the morning

in pursuit of beer,

who linger into the evening,

inflamed by wine.

Like wandering gazelles

and like sheep without a shepherd,

each one will turn to his own people,

each one will flee to his own land.

Let my refugees stay with you;

be a refuge for Moab[fn] from the aggressor.

When the oppressor has gone,

destruction has ended,

and marauders have vanished from the land,

The cities of Aroer are abandoned;

they will be places for flocks.

They will lie down without fear.

The nations rage like the rumble of a huge torrent.

He rebukes them, and they flee far away,

driven before the wind like chaff on the hills

and like tumbleweeds before a gale.

You say, “No!

We will escape on horses” —

therefore you will escape! —

and, “We will ride on fast horses” —

but those who pursue you will be faster.

His breath is like an overflowing torrent

that rises to the neck.

He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction

and to put a bridle on the jaws of the peoples

to lead them astray.

“He pursues them, going on safely,

hardly touching the path with his feet.

Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,

you who seek the LORD:

Look to the rock from which you were cut,

and to the quarry from which you were dug.

Let my persecutors be put to shame,

but don’t let me be put to shame.

Let them be terrified, but don’t let me be terrified.

Bring on them the day of disaster;

shatter them with total[fn] destruction.

But the LORD is with me like a violent warrior.

Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.

Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly shamed,

an everlasting humiliation that will never be forgotten.