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. They hurry to shed blood.

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.

There is a generation, whose teeth are like swords, and their jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

They attack, they lurk, and they watch my steps. They have waited for my life.

They are determined to do evil, and they tell themselves: Let us set traps! No one can see us.

Wicked men are found among my people. They lie in ambush like bird catchers. They set traps and catch men.

The godly (loyal) (holy) man has perished from the earth. There is none upright among men! They all lie in wait for blood. Every man hunts his own brother with a net.

Now therefore you, with the Sanhedrin, inform the commander that he bring him down to you tomorrow. You say you would inquire some more regarding him. We are ready to put him to death before he comes near.

They desired favor against him that he would transfer him to Jerusalem. Then they would ambush him along the way and kill him.

Let us lurk

They lie in wait for their own blood (murder). They set an ambush for their own lives.

He waits in ambush in the villages. From his hiding places he kills innocent people. He searches for victims.

Each one of them is like a lion eager to tear its prey apart and like a young lion crouching in hiding places.

They hid their net in a pit for no reason. They dug the pit to trap me for no reason.

I was like an unquestioning lamb brought to the slaughter. I did not know that they were plotting against me. They were saying: Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut Jeremiah off from this world of the living so that we will not be reminded of him anymore.

Then they said: Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise man, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike him with our tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words.

The chief priest and the elders of the people assembled at the court of Caiaphas, the high priest.

This took place that the word written in the Law may be fulfilled: They hated me without a cause.

General references

Do not murder.

And the men of Shechem set men in ambush on the top of the mountains. They robbed all who came along that way. This was reported to Abimelech.

A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him in bad ways.