Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Bible References

For

Psalm 120:5
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

But

Psalm 31:13
For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.
Psalm 36:3
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise and to do good.
Psalm 38:12
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me ; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.
Psalm 52:2
Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 64:4
That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
Psalm 140:2
Who devise mischiefs in their heart; Continually do they gather themselves together for war.
Jeremiah 11:19
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.
Daniel 6:5
Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
Matthew 26:4
and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
Acts 23:15
Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, before he comes near, are ready to slay him.
Acts 25:3
asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.

Quiet

Matthew 12:19
He shall not strive, nor cry aloud; Neither shall any one hear his voice in the streets.
1 Peter 2:22
who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:

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