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 make haste to shed blood.

The words of the wicked are a lying-in-wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves; they mark my steps, because they wait for my soul.

They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert to hide snares; they say, Who will see them?

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.

The godly man hath perished out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him.

asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.

Let us lurk

And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched.

He is like a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.

For without cause have they hidden for me their net in a pit; without cause they have digged it for my soul.

And I was like a tame lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

And they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together to the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,

But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a cause.

General references

Thou shalt not kill.

And the men of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountain tops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way; and it was told Abim'elech.

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into a way that is not good.