Proverbs 24:15

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Summary

Proverbs 24:15

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

Lay

Spoil

Proverbs 22:28

Isaiah 32:18

Bible References

Lay

If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?

And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.

Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand.

He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty gather themselves together against me: Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. Selah

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me,'saying , Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.

but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him:

But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the castle and told Paul.

asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.

Spoil

Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set.

And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.