Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'overthrow' occurs 38 times in the standard works.

6 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'overthrow' in the standard works and contain 15.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 3 minutes to read the entire list.

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Hag. 2:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 106:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 11:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 16 20 36
NT 3 1 4
BM 15 0 15
DC 4 0 4
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 38 21 59

Ex. 15:7
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

Judg. 9:40
And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate.

2 Sam. 17:9
Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.

2 Chr. 14:13
And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the Lord, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.

Job 12:19
He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.

Job 19:6
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

Ps. 141:6
When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

Prov. 11:11
By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

Prov. 12:7
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

Prov. 13:6
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Prov. 14:11
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

Prov. 21:12
The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

Prov. 22:12
The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

Prov. 29:4
The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

Isa. 1:7
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Jer. 18:23
Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

Lam. 4:6
For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

Dan. 11:41
He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

Amos 4:11
I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

Jonah 3:4
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

1 Cor. 10:5
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.