Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
The mouth
Bible References
Words
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
2 Samuel 17:1
And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me, I pray, choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David to-night;
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths;
Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.
Micah 7:1
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer-fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat; there is no early fruit which my soul desired.
Acts 23:12
And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.
Acts 25:3
asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.
The mouth
Proverbs 14:3
In the fool's mouth is a rod of pride; but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Esther 4:7
And Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and of the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
Esther 7:4
for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the adversary could not compensate the king's damage.