39 Verses About Overthrow from 22 Books

1 Chronicles 19:3

But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, "Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven't his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?"

1 Corinthians 10:5

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 25:8

But if you will go, take action, be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow."

2 Samuel 10:3

But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?"

2 Samuel 11:25

Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall tell Joab, 'Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.' Encourage him."

2 Timothy 2:18

men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

Acts 5:38

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.



Acts 5:39

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!"

Amos 4:11

"I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven't returned to me," says the LORD.

Daniel 11:41

He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many [countries] shall be overthrown; but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

Deuteronomy 29:23

[and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

Exodus 15:7

In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

Exodus 23:24

You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

Ezra 6:12

and the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who shall put forth their hand to alter [the same], to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence.



Genesis 19:21

He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Genesis 19:29

It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Haggai 2:22

I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.

Isaiah 1:7

Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Jeremiah 1:10

Behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."

Jeremiah 18:23

Yet, the LORD, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.

Jeremiah 31:28

It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says the LORD.



Jeremiah 49:18

As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus says the LORD of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

Job 12:19

He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

Jonah 3:4

Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"

Lamentations 4:6

For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her.

Proverbs 11:11

By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 12:7

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.



Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

Proverbs 24:16

for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Proverbs 24:17

Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

Psalms 9:6

The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

Psalms 106:26

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

Psalms 106:27

that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.



Psalms 119:78

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

Psalms 140:11

An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Romans 14:20

Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

Titus 1:11

whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.





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