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This adversary will embitter him, and the lords of the arrows will lie in wait.

Verse ConceptsNations Attacking IsraelBitternessharassment

And Joseph's brethren will see that their father died, and they will say to him, Joseph will lie in wait for us, and turning back, will turn back to us all the evil which we did to him.

Verse ConceptsGrudgesResentment, Against PeopleResponseRepaying Evil For EvilNamed People Angry With Others

But if he have not lain in wait, and God have delivered him into his hand, I will appoint thee a place to which he shall flee.

Verse ConceptsAltars, UsesDeath penaltyKillingMurderManslaughterAsylumAmbushUnintentional

If he pushed him of hatred, or threw something at him lying in wait and as a result he died,

Verse ConceptsPeople Waiting

But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or threw something at him without lying in wait,

Verse ConceptsLack Of Expectation

“But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait and ambush for him and attacks him and strikes him down so that he dies, and the assailant escapes to one of these cities,

Verse ConceptsWaitingPeople WaitingJudged As Murderers

how when you were very tired and weary, they lay in wait for you on the road and eliminated everyone who was lagging behind. They had no fear of God.

Verse ConceptsReverence, And Social BehaviourTirednessNo Fear Of GodTired In PursuitEnemy Attackstired

He commanded them, saying, “Listen closely, you are going to lie in wait and ambush the city from behind it. Do not go very far away from the city, but all of you be ready.

Verse ConceptsPeople Not Far Away

And the people will set all the camp which is from the north to the city, and its lying in wait, from the sea to the city; and Joshua will go in that night into the midst of the valley.

Verse ConceptsWest Sides

And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted, and rose up early, and the men of the city came out to meet Israel for battle, he and all his people, at an appointed time, before the waste plain, - he not knowing that there was an ambush lying in wait for him, behind the city.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing The FutureThose Who Rose Early

And the men of Shechem set men lying in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that passed by. And it was told to Abimelech.

Verse ConceptsAmbushRobbing PeopleTelling Of Happenings

Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

So Abimelech and all the people who were with him arose by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.

Verse ConceptsFour Groups

And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.

Verse ConceptsStanding In The Gateway

So he took his people and divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the field; when he looked and saw the people coming out from the city, he arose against them and slew them.

Verse ConceptsThree GroupsAmbush

The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here.” So they surrounded the place and waited all night at the gate of the city to ambush him. They kept quiet all night, saying, “In the morning, when it is light, we will kill him.”

Verse ConceptsDawnWaitingAmbushActing All NightAttempting To Kill Specific People

Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner room. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he broke the cords as a string of tow breaks when it touches fire. So [the secret of] his strength was not discovered.

Verse ConceptsAmbush

So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the men lying in ambush were in the inner room. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like [sewing] thread.

Verse ConceptsArmsCordsAmbush

Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

Verse ConceptsHiding From People

Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, I have well considered what Amalek did unto Israel - how he lay in wait for him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Nature Of

And Saul will come even to a city of Amalek, and he will lie in wait by the torrent

Verse ConceptsAmbush

That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

Verse ConceptsTreatyAllegiancesAmbushThose Who Did Not TellPeople Without Mercy

And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesAmbush

Now, my father, see! Indeed, see the edge of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the edge of your robe and did not kill you, know and perceive that there is no evil or rebellion in my hands, and I have not sinned against you, though you are lying in wait for my life to take it.

Verse ConceptsHuntingAttempting To Kill Specific PeoplePlea Of Innocence

And we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

Verse ConceptsCaravansHand Of GodRoadsDivine Protection, Examples OfGod's HandGod Saving From EnemiesGod's Hands On PeopleEnemy Attacks

He rent in his anger, and he will lie in wait for me, gnashing upon me with his teeth; mine enemy will sharpen his eyes against me.

Verse ConceptsTeethGnashing Of TeethGod Seeing All PeopleGod Angry With Individuals

Thou wilt turn to be cruel to me: with the strength of thy hand thou wilt lie in wait for me.

Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofStrictness

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman DesiresEnticementAvoid AdulteryThe Love Of Women

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

Verse ConceptsSecrecyWaitingWatchfulness, Of BelieversCharacter Of WickedHelplessnessLooking At People For EvilJudged As Murderersrehabilitation

Their eyes secretly watch the helpless, lying in wait like a lion in his den. They lie in wait to catch the afflicted. They catch the afflicted when they pull him into their net.

Verse ConceptsLionsNetsMan TrappingLike Creaturesrehabilitation

Wherefore should I fear in the days of calamity, Though the iniquity of them who lie in wait for me should enclose me?

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceFreed From FearBad Daysvulnerability

He will turn the evil upon those who lie in wait for me. Cut them off with your truth.

Verse ConceptsGod Will RequiteGod's PlanProtection From EnemiesGods PlanGod Turning Bad Things Into Good

From the voice of the enemy, from the face of the oppression of the unjust one: for they will bring down vanity upon me, for in anger they will lie in wait for me.

Verse ConceptsInsultsEnemy Attacksoppressionpressureharassment


My enemies have trampled upon me all day long,
For they are many who fight proudly against me.

Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfMany EnemiesAll DayEnemy Attacksharassment

They gather together and hide in ambush. They watch my every step as they lie in wait for my life.

Verse ConceptsAlianceseagernessAmbushLooking At People For EvilPeople WaitingEnemy Attacksfootprints

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

Verse ConceptsOffenceWaitingAmbushNo SinWaiting On The LordEnemy Attacksgathering


My God in His [steadfast] lovingkindness will meet me;
God will let me look triumphantly on my enemies [who lie in wait for me].

Verse ConceptsMeeting GodGod Shows His LovingkindnessGod's Willdevotion

Wherefore will ye lie in wait, ye mountains of heights? the mountain God desired to dwell in it: also Jehovah will dwell forever.

Verse ConceptsGod's DwellingAvoid Envy

They lying in wait for my soul shall be ashamed; they shall be finished; they seeking my evil shall be covered with reproach and shame.

Verse ConceptsBlamedisgraceHurt

My eyes gloated over those who lie in wait for me; when those of evil intent attack me, my ears will hear.

Verse ConceptsdefeatLooking Intently At PeopleEnemy Attacks

This the doing of those lying in wait for me from Jehovah, and speaking evil against my soul.

Verse ConceptsPeople Accusing People

They lying in wait for me shall put on shame, and they shall be covered with their shame as an upper garment

Verse ConceptsCloaksClothed With Bad ThingsPeople Accusing People

If they say, “Come with us,
Let us lie in wait for blood,
Let us ambush the innocent without cause;

Verse ConceptsGoing TogetherAmbushAttempting To KillFun

But they lie in wait for their own blood;
They ambush their own lives.

Verse ConceptsRetributionAmbush

at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)

Verse ConceptsHarlotsCorners

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood,
But the mouth of the upright will deliver them.

Verse ConceptsSpeech, Power And Significance OfAmbush

Surely she lies in wait like a bandit, increasing those who are faithless among mankind.

Verse ConceptsAmbushUnfaithful

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous;
Do not destroy his resting place;

Verse ConceptsWaitingAmbush

For the ruthless one will vanish,
the scorner will disappear,
and all those who lie in wait with evil intent
will be killed—

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toMockeryInfidelity To GodUncharitablenessWatching To EntrapPeople EndedScoffersmockers

"Look up at the hilltops and consider this. You have had sex with other gods on every one of them. You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the desert. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods.

Verse ConceptsNomadsUsing RoadsPolluting The LandSpiritual HarlotrySex Between NationsThings On High


Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them,
A wolf of the deserts will destroy them,
A leopard is watching their cities.
Everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
Because their transgressions are many,
Their desertions of faith are countless.

Verse ConceptsForestsLeopardCarnivorousnessWolvesIn Danger From Lions


‘For wicked men are found among My people,
They watch like fowlers who lie in wait;
They set a trap,
They catch men.

Verse ConceptsHuntingTrapWaitingAmbushSnares Laid for PeopleMan TrappingBirds

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait for him.

Verse ConceptsFlatteryArrows, Figurative OfTongueTrapLack Of MeaningDeceitful TonguesArrowsDeception


Our pursuers were swifter
Than the eagles of the sky;
They pursued us on the mountains,
They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleSkySpeedEaglesAmbushrelentless

And say, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo to them sewing together cushions for all the joints of the hands, and making cushions upon the head of every height to lie in wait for souls! will ye lie in wait for the souls to my people, and will ye preserve alive the souls to you?

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofSorcery And MagicTrapVeilsMagiciansDressSewingTemptressesTall PeopleAvoid Sorcerymagic

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me against your pillows with which ye lie in wait there for the souls to break forth, and I rent them from your arms, and I sent away the souls, the souls which ye lie in wait for to break forth.

Verse ConceptsBirds, Figurative UseGod Stripping PeopleGod OpposingAvoid SorceryGod Freeing CaptivesBirdsflyingmagicvampires

Tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: "Watch out! I'm coming to get you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt! You big monster! You lay in wait in the middle of your waterways and say, "My waterways belong to me! I made them for myself!"

Verse ConceptsCosmic CreaturesPeople Possessing Other Things


And as bands of robbers [lie in] wait for a man,
So a band of priests murder on the road toward Shechem [covering their crimes in that city of refuge];
Certainly they have committed crimes and outrages.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesRoadsCorrupt PriestsLeaders Sinning

For they have made ready, like an oven, their heart, by their lying in wait, - all the night, their baker sleepeth, in the morning, he, kindleth up as it were a blazing fire.

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansIn The MorningActing All NightUnnamed People Angry With Others

So I will be like a lion to them;
Like a leopard I will lie in wait by the wayside.

Verse ConceptsLeopardGod Like A LionGod WaitingLike Creatures

The godly man hath perished out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Verse ConceptsHuntingNetsEvil TimesUprightnessPeople WaitingMan TrappingNo One AvailableThe Righteous PerishingGodly ManA Good Man

And after three months stay, as the Jews were lying in wait for him, when he was just embarking for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesSeafaringSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfTrapTwo To Four MonthsIsrael Hardened

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

Verse ConceptsAmbushThings Revealed

But do not yield to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him; they have taken an oath not to eat or drink till they have killed him. They are all ready now, just waiting for your promise."

Verse ConceptsPeople WaitingAmbushPreparing For ActionFortiesAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleDo Not Listen!Vowing To FastPeople Bound By Oaths

When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell."

Verse ConceptsPeople Accusing People

begging it as a favour from him, that he would send him back to Jerusalem, lying in wait for him to kill him on the road.

Verse ConceptsAskingImportunity, Towards PeopleSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfAmbushAttempting To Kill Specific People

Non-Exact Match

For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

Verse ConceptsFaultsDesire For DeathMan's CounselEnemy Attacks

It is he that delivereth my soul in peace from them that lay wait for me; for they are many against me.

Verse ConceptsMany EnemiesBattlestrivingredeemed

A rope lies hidden in the dirt; a trap lies waiting for him where he is walking."

where a great number of infirm, blind, lame, and paralytic people lay waiting for the moving of the water:

Verse ConceptsdiseasesMoving OnThose Loving GodMoving To A New Placemovement

They lie waiting in our way on every side, watching to cast us down to the ground,

Verse ConceptsEnemies Surrounding

They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘This is the Lord’s declaration,’ when the Lord did not send them, yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.

Verse ConceptsDeception Through False TeachersProphets Who Were Not SentMan's Words Fulfilled

So, when they got out upon the land, they behold a coal fire lying, and fish lying over, and bread.

Verse ConceptsBakingCoal, Uses OfCharcoalFishcooking

So shalt thou become, as one lying down in the heart of the sea, - or as one lying down on the top of the mastgear:

Verse ConceptsAlcoholSleep, PhysicalThe Insecurity Of The WickedIn The Heart Of The Sea

That night, David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the troops were lying around him.

Verse ConceptsSoldiers

And will ye profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and for morsels of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that listen to lying?

Verse ConceptsGrainListeningTemptressesKept Alive By MenProphesying LiesRemaining FoodMisusing God's NameKilling Israelitesmagic

But when they got up early the following day, Dagon was again lying on the ground before the ark of the Lord. The head of Dagon and his two hands were sheared off and were lying at the threshold. Only Dagon's body was left intact.

Verse ConceptsBodyHeadsMorningRising EarlyBeheadingCutting Off Hands And FeetThose Who Rose EarlyThings Fallingstatues

So then David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped, and David saw the place where Saul was lying, with Abner, son of Ner, prince of his host, - and, Saul, was lying within the circular trench, with, the people, encamped round about him.

And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, go, and come in at the heat of the day unto the house of Ish-Bosheth, and he is lying down -- the lying down of noon;

Verse ConceptsHeatNoonHot Weather

But [then] a certain Samaritan [Note: This was a person despised by the Jews and regarded by them as a 'half-breed'], as he traveled along, came to where the [injured] man was [lying], and upon seeing him [lying there], felt deep pity [for him].

Verse ConceptsOpportunities, In LifeOutsidersTravelPeople Showing Mercy

The servants waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upstairs room. So they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor!

Verse ConceptsKeys

When he lies down, notice the place where he’s lying, go in and uncover his feet, and lie down. Then he will explain to you what you should do.”

Verse ConceptsLying Down To Rest

And if lying down a man shall lie with her and her uncleanness shall be upon him, and he was unclean seven days: and every bed which he shall lie upon, it shall be unclean.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysSex And UncleannessSeven Days For Legal PurposesUnclean Things

And they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn DaughtersAlcoholic BeveragessexFather And Daughter Relationships