Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Bible References
Lay snares
Psalm 10:9
He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.
Psalm 64:2
Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked, from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
Psalm 119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me; yet did not I err from thy precepts.
Psalm 140:5
The proud have hid a snare for me and cords; they have spread a net; on the path they have set snares for me. Selah.
Psalm 141:9
Keep me from the hands of the snare which they have laid for me, and from the snares of the workers of iniquity.
2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night,
Luke 20:19
And the princes of the priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him, for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them; but they feared the people.
Speak
Psalm 35:20
For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful matters against those that are meek in the land.
Psalm 62:3
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? Shall ye murder each other until ye are as a bowing wall and as a tottering fence?
2 Samuel 16:7
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial;
Luke 20:21
And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither dost thou accept the person of any, but teachest the way of God with truth;