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 shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously;
2 Samuel 17:1
And Ahithophel will say to Absalom, I will now choose twelve thousand men. and I will rise and pursue after David this night:
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out innocent blood: their purposes, purposes of vanity; destruction and breaking in their highways.
Jeremiah 5:26
for evil ones were found among my people: he will look about as the stooping of fowlers; they set snares, they will take men.
Micah 7:1
Wo to me! for I was as the gatherings of the fruit harvest, as the gleanings of the vintage, no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fig.
Acts 23:12
And it being day, certain of the Jews having made a condition, anathematized themselves, saying, neither to eat or drink till they kill Paul.
Acts 25:3
Asking favor against him, that he might send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambuscade to kill him in the way.

The mouth

Proverbs 14:3
In the month of the foolish one a rod of pride: and the lips of the wise shall watch them.
Esther 4:7
And Mordecai will announce to him all which befell him, and the exposition of the silver which Haman said to weigh to the king's treasures for the Jews to destroy them.
Esther 7:4
For we were sold, I and my people, to cut off, to kill and to destroy. And if for servants and for maids we were sold, I was silent, but the enemy made not even for the loss of the king.