15 Bible Verses about Attempting To Kill Specific People

But the chief priests consulted that they might kill Lazarus also,

And he intended to put him to death, but feared the multitude, because they regarded him as a prophet.

And Herodias was angry with him, and desired to have him killed, and was not able;

And when they heard this, they were enraged; and they determined to put them to death.

And, after many days had passed, the Jews determined to kill him. And their plot was made known to Saul; and they watched the gates day and night, that they might kill him.

he conversed and reasoned with the Hellenists; but they under took to kill him.

And while they were seeking to kill him, report was brought to the officer of the band, that the whole of Jerusalem was in an uproar.

Now, therefore, do you, together with the Sanhedrin, give notice to the officer, that he bring him down to you to-morrow, as if you intended to inquire more accurately into the matters concerning him: and before he comes near, we are ready to kill him.

Then came thither, from Antioch and Iconium, Jews, who persuaded the multitudes; and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

And when it was day, the Jews combined together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

And they went to the chief priests and elders, and said: We have surely bound ourselves under a curse, that we will taste nothing till we have killed Paul.

Do not, however, be persuaded by them; for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him; and they have bound themselves under a curse, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for a promise from you.

For these reasons the Jews seized me in the temple, and endeavored to kill me.

and, asking a favor against him, besought him that he would send and have him brought to Jerusalem, laying a plot to kill him on the road.

The soldiers counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest some of them should swim out and escape.