15 Bible Verses about Attempting To Kill Specific People

Then the chief priests consulted how they might kill Lazarus also;

And though he wished to kill him, he was afraid of the multitude, for they held him as a prophet.

Therefore Herodias bore him a rooted resentment, and would have slain him; yet could not:

But when they heard this, they were cut asunder as with a saw, and took counsel how to make away with them.

But when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted together how to kill him: but their design was discovered to Saul. And they kept guard at the gates of the city day and night, that they might kill him.

and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. And he talked and disputed with the Grecian proselytes: but they made an attempt to murder him.

And as they were attempting to murder him, the report reached the military tribune of the band, that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

Now therefore do ye with the sanhedrim give notice to the military tribune, that to-morrow he bring him down to you, as if intending to make more accurate inquiries into the things concerning him: but we, ere he come nigh, are ready to kill him.

Then came the Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and gaining over the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

Then as soon as it was day, some of the Jews forming a conspiracy, bound themselves under the direst imprecation, declaring that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

So they came to the high-priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves by the direst imprecation, to taste nothing till we have killed Paul.

But do not thou consent to them: for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves under an anathema, neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now they are in readiness, waiting only to procure the promise from thee.

Because of these things, the Jews seizing me in the temple, attempted to kill me on the spot.

begging it as a favour from him, that he would send him back to Jerusalem, lying in wait for him to kill him on the road.

Then the soldiers' design was to have murdered the prisoners, lest any of them should swim ashore and escape.