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 entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:
2 Samuel 17:1
Then Ahithophel said unto Absalom, "Let me choose out, I pray thee, twelve thousand men. And I will up and follow after David by night.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their counsels are wicked counsels; harm and destruction are in their ways.
Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked persons, that privily lay snares and wait for me, to take them and destroy them.
Micah 7:1
Woe is me! I am become as one that goeth a gleaning in the harvest. There are no more grapes to eat, yet would I fain, with all my heart, have of the best fruit.
Acts 23:12
When day was come, certain of the Jews gathered themselves together, and made a vow saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Acts 25:3
and desired favour against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, and laid wait for him in the way to kill him.
The mouth
Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of the foolish is the boasting of lordship; but the lips of the wise will beware of such.
Esther 4:7
And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of silver that Haman had promised to weigh down in the king's chamber because of the Jews, for to destroy them.
Esther 7:4
for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold to be bondmen and bondwomen, then would I hold my tongue; although the enemy could not recompense the king's loss.