15 Bible Verses about Attempting To Kill Specific People

But the high priests planned to kill Lazarus,

Although he wanted to have him killed, he was afraid of the people, for they regarded him as a prophet.

So Herodias had it in for him and wanted to have him killed. But she could not have it done,

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

After several days had gone by, the Jews laid a plot to murder him, but their plot was found out by Saul. Day and night they kept guarding the city gates, to murder him,

and he continued to speak courageously in the name of the Lord, and to speak and debate with the Greek-speaking Jews. But they kept trying to murder him.

Now while they were trying to kill him, news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a ferment.

So you and the council must now notify the colonel to bring him down to you, as though you were going to look into his case more carefully, but before he gets down we will be ready to kill him."

But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the crowds by persuasion, and they stoned Paul, and dragged him outside the town, supposing he was dead.

After day had dawned, the Jews formed a conspiracy and took an oath not to eat or drink till they had killed Paul.

They went to the high priests and elders and said to them, "We have taken a solemn oath not to taste a morsel till we have killed Paul.

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."

For these very things the Jews arrested me in the temple and kept on trying to kill me.

and begged the governor as a favor to have Paul come to Jerusalem, because they were plotting an ambush to kill him on the way.

The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners, to keep any of them from swimming ashore and escaping,