80 Bible Verses about Trap

Can one take him by his eyes, or pierce his nose with a snare?

But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, "Restore!"

The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when it has taken nothing?

And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he said, "No," they said to him, "Then say Shibboleth," and he said, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell.

if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,

An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous escapes from trouble.

who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.

And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk.

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, 'Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the LORD before I die.' Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you.read more.
Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves. And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies." But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing."

So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore. And they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.

The woman said to him, "Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?"

They said to the king, "The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel,

But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

"I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength.

"Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm! You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life. For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.

but Jesus said to him, "Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?"

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."

Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst.

And you shall consume all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you, know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you.

So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you."

And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.

And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies." And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.

The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust.

It is a snare to say rashly, "It is holy," and to reflect only after making vows.

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive?

Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.

The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe.

And some of the men of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David. David went out to meet them and said to them, "If you have come to me in friendship to help me, my heart will be joined to you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you."

The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.

As for the scoundrel--his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.

The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good. He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.

They search out injustice, saying, "We have accomplished a diligent search." For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep!

with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;

Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy.

A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire. A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. A man of violence entices his neighbor and leads him in a way that is not good.read more.
Whoever winks his eyes plansdishonest things; he who purses his lips brings evil to pass.

Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.

Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD.

Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates), Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come and let us meet together at Hakkephirim in the plain of Ono." But they intended to do me harm. And I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?"read more.
And they sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner.

Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence. On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.

For I hear the whispering of many-- terror on every side!-- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me!

The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from your precepts.

The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah

When my spirit faints within me, you know my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

May a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet.

You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me. "You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me.

The breath of our nostrils, the LORD's anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations."

Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him. Then these men said, "We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God." Then these presidents and satraps came by agreement to the king and said to him, "O King Darius, live forever!read more.
All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an injunction, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.

The tribune took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me? And he said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more closely about him. But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him, who have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for your consent.

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,

who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, "'Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?

Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant--

Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.

From you came one who plotted evil against the LORD, a worthless counselor.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.

But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, "Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?

But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, "Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it."

And as they were eating, he said, "Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me."

The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer they became silent.

This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.

So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons. Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Whom do you seek?"

The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God; yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them,

There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.

His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down. For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh. A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him.read more.
A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.

The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah