Proverbs 1:11

Advice To The Young

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice you,
Do not consent.
¹¹ If they say, “Come with us,
Let us lie in wait for blood,
Let us ambush the innocent without cause;
¹² Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;

Let Us

Shed Blood

No

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood;
They ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood,
But the mouth of the upright will deliver them.

Jeremiah 5:26

‘For wicked men are found among My people,
They watch like fowlers lying in wait;
They set a trap,
They catch men.

Psalm 10:8-10

He sits in the lurking places of the villages;
In the hiding places he kills the innocent;
His eyes stealthily watch for the unfortunate.

Psalm 17:12

He is like a lion that is eager to tear,
And as a young lion lurking in hiding places.

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they hid their net for me;
Without cause they dug a pit for my soul.

Psalm 56:6

They attack, they lurk,
They watch my steps,
As they have waited to take my life.

Psalm 64:5-6

They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, “Who can see them?”

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil
And they hasten to shed blood.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a kind of man whose teeth are like swords
And his jaw teeth like knives,
To devour the afflicted from the earth
And the needy from among men.

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;
And I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
And let us cut him off from the land of the living,
That his name be remembered no more.”

Jeremiah 18:18-20

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.”

Micah 7:2

The godly person has perished from the land,
And there is no upright person among men.
All of them lie in wait for bloodshed;
Each of them hunts the other with a net.

Matthew 26:3-4

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, named Caiaphas;

John 15:25

But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

Acts 23:15

Now therefore, you and the Council notify the commander to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case by a more thorough investigation; and we for our part are ready to slay him before he comes near the place.”

Acts 25:3

requesting a concession against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem (at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way).