14 Bible Verses about Attempting To Kill Specific People

But the chief priest passed an edict that they would also slay Lazarus;

And wishing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because they esteemed him as a prophet.

And Herodias hated him, and wished to kill him; and was not able;

And hearing, they were cut through and were minded to kill them.

And when many days were being filled up, the Jews issued a verdict to kill him: but their plot was made known to Saul. And they were keeping the gates both day and night in order that they might kill him:

and he was speaking and arguing against the Hellenists, and they undertook to kill him.

Now therefore do you appeal to the chiliarch along with the sanhedrim, that he may lead him down to you, as about to investigate matters concerning him more thoroughly: and we are ready to kill him before he comes nigh.

But the Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the multitudes, stoned Paul, dragged him out of the city, thinking that he was dead;

And it being day, the Jews having formed a conspiracy, obligated themselves by an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they might kill Paul.

who, having come to the chief priests and elders, said, We have anathematized ourselves with an anathema, to taste nothing until we may kill Paul.

Therefore do not be persuaded by them: for more than forty of them lie in wait for him, who have obligated themselves by an oath, neither to eat nor drink until they may kill him: and now they are ready, awaiting the promise from you.

On account of these things the Jews, taking me while in the temple, endeavored to kill me.

asking favor against him, in order that he might send him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on the road.

And the counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest some one, having outswum them, might escape: