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 are hasty to shed blood.

The talking of the ungodly is how they may lay wait for blood; but the mouth of the righteous will deliver them.

This peoples' teeth are swords, and with their jawbones they consume and devour the simple of the earth, and the poor from among men.

They hold all together, and keep themselves close, and mark my steps, when they lay wait for my soul.

They have devised mischief, and communed among themselves how they may lay snares. "Tush," say they, "Who shall see them?"

For among my people are found wicked persons, that privily lay snares and wait for me, to take them and destroy them.

There is not a godly man upon earth, there is not one righteous among men. They labour all to shed blood, and every man hunteth his brother to death:

Now therefore give ye knowledge to the upper captain, and to the council that he bring him forth unto us tomorrow, as though we would know some thing more perfectly of him. But we, or ever he come near, are ready in the mean season to kill him."

and desired favour against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, and laid wait for him in the way to kill him.

Let us lurk

Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another.

He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets, and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are set against the poor.

like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a lion's whelp, lurking in secret places.

For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause; yea, and made a pit for my soul, which I never deserved.

But I, as a meek lamb, was carried away to be slain: not knowing, that they had devised such a counsel against me saying, "We will destroy his meat with wood, and drive him out of the land of the living: that his name shall never be thought upon."

Then said they, "Come, let us imagine something against this Jeremiah." Yea, this did even the priests, to whom the law was committed: the Senators, that were the wisest: and the prophets, which wanted not the word of God. "Come," said they, "let us cut out his tongue, and let us not regard his words."

Then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people into the palace of the high priest, called Caiaphas:

Even that the saying might be fulfilled that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'

General references

"Thou shalt not kill.

And the citizens of Shechem set men to lay await for him in the top of the mountains, which men robbed all that came along the way by them. And it was told Abimelech.

A wicked man beguileth his neighbour; and leadeth him the way that is not good.