Proverbs 1:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

because their feet run toward trouble
and they hurry to commit murder.

The words of the wicked are a deadly ambush,
but the speech of the upright rescues them.

There is a generation whose teeth are swords,
whose fangs are knives,
devouring the oppressed from the land
and the needy from among mankind.

They stir up strife, they lurk;
they watch my steps
while they wait to take my life.

They encourage each other in an evil plan;

they talk about hiding traps and say,
“Who will see them?”

for wicked men live among My people.
They watch like fowlers lying in wait.

They set a trap;
they catch men.

Godly people have vanished from the land;
there is no one upright among the people.
All of them wait in ambush to shed blood;
they hunt each other with a net.

So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. However, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.”

asking him to do them a favor against Paul, that he might summon him to Jerusalem. They were preparing an ambush along the road to kill him.

Let us lurk

but they set an ambush to kill themselves;
they attack their own lives.

He waits in ambush near the villages;
he kills the innocent in secret places.
His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless;

They are like a lion eager to tear,
like a young lion lurking in ambush.

They hid their net for me without cause;
they dug a pit for me without cause.

for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter.
I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;
let’s cut him off from the land of the living
so that his name will no longer be remembered.”

Then certain ones said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will never be lost from the priest, or counsel from the wise, or an oracle from the prophet. Come, let’s denounce him and pay no attention to all his words.”

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

But this happened so that the statement written in their scripture might be fulfilled:

They hated Me for no reason.

General references

Do not murder.

The lords of Shechem rebelled against him by putting people on the tops of the mountains to ambush and rob everyone who passed by them on the road. So this was reported to Abimelech.

A violent man lures his neighbor,
leading him in a way that is not good.