Proverbs 1:11

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Summary

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Let us lay

Let us lurk

General references

Exodus 20:13

Judges 9:25

Proverbs 16:29

Bible References

Let us lay

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

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

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.

They

attack, they lurk,

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

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

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

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.

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.”

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).

Let us lurk

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

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

unfortunate.

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

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

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.”

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.”

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

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

General references

“You shall not murder.

The men of Shechem set men in ambush against him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who might pass by them along the road; and it was told to Abimelech.

A man of violence entices his neighbor
And leads him in a way that is not good.