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

John 15:25

General references

Exodus 20:13

Judges 9:25

Proverbs 16:29

Bible References

Let us lay

For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

The words of sinners are destruction for the upright; but the mouth of upright men is their salvation.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.

They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.

So now, will you and the Sanhedrin make a request to the military authorities to have him sent down to you, as if you were desiring to go into the business in greater detail; and we, before ever he gets to you, will be waiting to put him to death.

Requesting Festus to give effect to their design against him, and send him to Jerusalem, when they would be waiting to put him to death on the way.

Let us lurk

And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.

Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.

General references

Do not put anyone to death without cause.

And the townsmen of Shechem put secret watchers on the tops of the mountains, and they made attacks on all who went by on the road and took their goods; and word of this came to Abimelech.

A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.