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.

Bible References

Words

Proverbs 1:11
If they say—“Come with us!
Let’s set an ambush and kill someone.
Let’s attack some innocent person just for fun!
2 Samuel 17:1
Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose 12,000 men, and I will set out in pursuit of David tonight.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run after evil,
and they rush to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are sinful thoughts;
ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.
Jeremiah 5:26
for wicked men live among My people.
They watch like fowlers lying in wait.
They set a trap;
they catch men.
Micah 7:1
How sad for me!
For I am like one who—
when the summer fruit has been gathered
after the gleaning of the grape harvest
finds no grape cluster to eat,
no early fig, which I crave.
Acts 23:12
When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under a curse: neither to eat nor to drink until they had killed Paul.
Acts 25:3
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.

The mouth

Proverbs 14:3
The proud speech of a fool brings a rod of discipline,
but the lips of the wise protect them.
Esther 4:7
Mordecai told him everything that had happened as well as the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay the royal treasury for the slaughter of the Jews.
Esther 7:4
For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and extermination. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept silent. Indeed, the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king.”

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