15 Bible Verses about Attempting To Kill Specific People
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And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they accounted him a prophet.
Therefore Herodias was incensed against him, and was desirous to have killed him; but she could not.
When they heard this, they gnashed their teeth, and took counsel to slay them.
And when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted together to kill him. But their lying in wait was known by Saul: and they guarded the gates day and night to kill him.
And preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, he disputed with the Hellenists: but they attempted to kill him:
And as they went about to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar:
Now therefore ye with the council signify to the tribune, that he bring him down to you to-morrow, as though ye would more accurately examine the things concerning him: and we, before he came near, are ready to kill him.
But there came thither Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the multitude, and having stoned Paul, dragged him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
And when it was day, some of the Jews entering into a conspiracy, bound themselves under a curse, saying, That they would neither eat nor drink, till they had killed Paul.
And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves by a solemn curse, not to taste anything, till we have killed Paul.
But do not yield to them; for there are more than forty of them lie in wait, who have bound themselves with a curse, neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, expecting a promise from thee.
For these things the Jews seizing me in the temple, attempted to kill me with their own hands.
that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying an ambush to kill him by the way.
And the counsel of the soldiers was, to kill the prisoners, lest any one should swim away and escape.
