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 lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;
2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.
Jeremiah 5:26
For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
Micah 7:1
Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
Acts 23:12
When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Acts 25:3
asking as a favor against Paul that he summon him to Jerusalem--because they were planning an ambush to kill him on the way.
The mouth
Proverbs 14:3
By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.
Esther 4:7
and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.
Esther 7:4
For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king."