15 Bible Verses about Attempting To Kill Specific People

Wherefore the chief priests took counsel to put Lazarus also to death.

but that he was afraid of the people; for they esteemed him as a prophet.

Wherefore Herodias persecuted him, and would have taken away his life:

And when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to put them to death.

And after a considerable time, the Jews conspired to kill him: but Saul was apprised of their design. And they watched the gates day and night, to make away with him:

and he talked and disputed with the Hellenists, who attempted to kill him:

And as they were going to kill him, a report came to the tribune of the cohort, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar:

Now therefore do ye with the rest of the sanhedrim signify to the tribune, that he would bring him down to you to-morrow, as if you would examine more accurately some things concerning him: and we are ready to dispatch him before he come near you."

But there came thither some Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and persuading the multitude, stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

And when it was day, some of the Jews, having formed a conspiracy, bound themselves with a curse, saying, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

who came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves by a curse to eat nothing till we have killed Paul.

But do not thou comply with them: for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them, who have bound themselves with a curse neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him: and they are now ready, waiting for an order from thee.

For these things the Jews seized me in the temple, and attempted to kill me.

begging the favor of him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; for they were preparing an ambush to kill him by the way.

And the counsel of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, least any of them should swim out and escape.