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 hurry to shed blood,

The words of the wicked [are] an ambush of blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.

[There is] a generation whose teeth [are] swords, and its jawbones, knives, [in order] to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from humankind.

They attack, they hide, they watch my {steps}, as they [lie in] wait for my life.

They encourage themselves [in the] evil matter. They talk of secretly laying snares. They say, "Who will see them?"

For wicked people are found among my people, they lie in wait like the hiding of fowlers, they set up a trap, they catch humans.

The faithful [person] has perished from the land, and there is none who is upright among humankind. All of them lie in wait; each hunts his brother [with] a net.

Therefore, now you along with the Sanhedrin explain to the military tribune that he should bring him down to you, as [if you] were going to determine more accurately the things concerning him. And we are ready to do away with him before he comes near."

asking for a favor against him, that he summon him to Jerusalem, [because they] were preparing an ambush to do away with him along the way.

Let us lurk

They lie in wait for their [own] blood. They ambush their [own] lives.

He sits in ambush in villages; in the hiding places he kills [the] innocent. His eyes {lurk} for [the] helpless.

{He is like} a lion; he longs to tear apart, and like a strong lion crouching in hiding places.

For without cause they secretly hide the pit with their net for me; without cause they dug [it] for my life.

And I [was] like a gentle ram-lamb that is brought to slaughter, and I did not know that they planned plans against me, [saying], "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from [the] land of [the] living, so that his name will no longer be remembered."

Then they said, "Come and let us plan plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will not be lost from [the] priest, nor advice from [the] wise man, nor [the] word from [the] prophet. Come and {let us bring charges against him}, and let us not listen attentively to any of his words."

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

But [this happened] so that the word that is written in their law would be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a reason.'

General references

"You shall not murder.

And the lords of Shechem set for him ambushes on the top of the mountains, and they robbed all who passed by them along the road; and it was reported to Abimelech.

A person of violence will entice his neighbor and cause him to walk on a way [that is] not good.