15 Bible Verses about Attempting To Kill Specific People

So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus also to death,

And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet.

And Herodias had a grudge against him, and wanted to kill him. But she could not,

When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to kill them.

When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him, but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night, to kill him;

And he was talking and arguing with the Hellenistic Jews; but they were seeking to kill him.

While they were trying to kill him, a report came up to the commander of the Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

You therefore, along with the council, give notice now to the commander to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near."

But Jews came there from Antioch and Iconium; and having won over the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

They went to the chief priests and the elders and said, "We have bound ourselves under a solemn oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

But do not yield to them; for more than forty of them are waiting in ambush for him, having bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they have killed him; and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from you."

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.

as a favor to them, to have Paul transferred to Jerusalem, for they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.

The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape.