Verses with the word possessed in the Apocrypha (6 verses):
Judith 4:5
And possessed themselves beforehand of all the tops of the high mountains, and fortified the villages that were in them, and laid up victuals for the provision of war: for their fields were of late reaped.
Judith 5:15
So they dwelt in the land of the Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength all them of Esebon, and passing over Jordan they possessed all the hill country.
Judith 5:19
But now are they returned to their God, and are come up from the places where they were scattered, and have possessed Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and are seated in the hill country; for it was desolate.
Sirach 36:15
Give testimony unto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning, and raise up prophets that have been in thy name.
1 Maccabees 1:32
But the women and children took they captive, and possessed the cattle.
1 Maccabees 2:57
David for being merciful possessed the throne of an everlasting kingdom.
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