14 occurrences across the corpus

King James Version

Genesis 31:23

And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven daysjourney; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

Genesis 31:25

Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

Genesis 44:6

And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.

Exodus 14:9

But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.

Judges 18:22

And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micahs house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.

Judges 20:42

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

2 Kings 25:5

And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.

Jeremiah 39:5

But the Chaldeansarmy pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

Jeremiah 52:8

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

Lamentations 1:3

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)

1 Maccabees 12:30

Then Jonathan pursued after them, but overtook them not: for they were gone over the river Eleutherus.

1 Enoch

1 Enoch 89:38

His countenance _was_ terrific and splendid, and glorious was his aspect. Yet the wolves began to follow the sheep, until they overtook them in a certain lake of water.

Jubilees

Jubilees 29:6

overtook Jacob in the mountain of Gilead in the third month, on the thirteenth thereof. And the Lord did not suffer him to injure Jacob; for he appeared to him in a dream by night. And Laban

OT Pseudepigrapha

Testament of Judah 1:10

A wild mare I overtook, and caught it and tamed it.