80 Bible Verses about Trap

Shall any take him before his eyes, or pierce through his nose with cords?

But this is a people robbed and spoiled; all of them snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison-houses; they have been taken, and none delivers them; a prize, and none says, Give back.

The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.

Will a bird fall into a trap on the ground, and there is no bait for it? Will a trap spring up from the ground, and nothing at all be caught?

And the Gileadites took the fords of Jordan before the Ephraimites. And it happened that when one of those Ephraimites who had escaped said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? And he said, No. And they said to him, Please say Shibboleth. And he said, Sibboleth, for he could not manage to pronounce it right. Then they took him and killed him at the passages of Jordan. And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites.

you are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips, but the just shall come out of trouble.

those who make a man guilty by a word, and lay a trap for the reprover in the gate, and turn aside the just for a worthless thing.

Their tongue is a slaughtering arrow; it speaks deceit; one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lies in ambush.

And they sent certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to Him, to catch Him in His words.

And Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob, saying, Behold, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, saying, Bring me game, and make me delicious things so that I may eat and bless you before Jehovah before my death. And now, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you.read more.
Go now to the flock, and bring me from there two good kids of the goats. And I will make them delicious things for your father, such as he loves. And you shall bring it to your father so that he may eat, and that he may bless you before his death. And Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. My father will perhaps feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver. And I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

And it happened when Joseph had come to his brothers, they stripped Joseph out of his tunic, the tunic reaching to the soles of his feet that was on him. And they took him and threw him into a pit. And the pit was empty, with no water in it.

And the woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off mediums, and the spirit-knowers, out of the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?

And they answered the king, The man who destroyed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

And the people of the land killed all those who had plotted against King Amon. And the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and my elders expired in the city while they sought food for them to bring back their life.

Woe to him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil! You have planned shame to your house, to make an end of many people, and are sinning in your soul. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

But Jesus said to him, Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?

But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

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

Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the people of the land where you go, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you.

And you shall destroy all the people which Jehovah your God shall deliver you. Your eye shall have no pity upon them, neither shall you serve their gods, for they will be a snare to you.

Otherwise, if you go back in any way, and hold to those left of these nations, these that remain among you, and shall marry them and go in to them and they to you, know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and whips in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God has given you.

And I also said, I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be 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 went there lusting after it, which thing became a snare to Gideon and to his house.

And she said to him, How can you say, I love you, and your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me in what your great strength lies. And it happened because she distressed him with her words daily, and urged him; and his soul was grieved to death.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but deceivers shall be taken in lust.

It is a snare to a man to say rashly, A holy thing, and afterward vows to ask about it.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and you shall not go up with a man of fury, lest you learn his ways and get a snare to your soul.

and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Woe to those sewing bands to all joints of my hands, and make long veils for the head of every man of stature, to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and will you save alive the souls for yourselves?

Hear this, O priests, and listen, house of Israel. And give ear, house of the king. For judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah and a net spread on Tabor.

The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Jehovah shall be safe.

And some of the sons of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David. And David went out to meet them, and answered and said to them, If you have come to me in peace, to help me, my heart shall be knit to you. But if you come to betray me to my enemies, since there is no wrong in my hands, let the God of our fathers look on it and rebuke it.

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

Also the weapons of the fool are evil; he thinks of wicked ways to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

The words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has stopped acting wisely and doing good. He plots evil on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not hate evil.

They search out injustice, saying, We have finished hiding a hidden plot. Yea, the inward part of man and the heart are deep.

perversity is in his heart; he is always planning mischief; he causes fighting.

Deceit is in the heart of those who imagine evil, but to counselors of peace there is joy.

An ungodly man plots evil, and his lips are like a burning fire. A perverse man causes fighting, and a whisperer separates chief friends. A violent man lures his neighbor and makes him go in a way not good.read more.
He shuts his eyes to think of perverse things; moving his lips, he brings evil to pass.

And those who seek my life lay snares for me; and those who seek my hurt speak sly things, and utter deceits all the day long.

And Cain talked with his brother Abel. And it happened when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.

And it happened, when Sanballat, and Tobiah and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no break left in it (though at that time I had not set the doors on the gates), Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me harm. And I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so I cannot come down. Why should the work cease 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 way.

Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me, they have also thrown off the bridle before me. On my right a brood rises; they push away my feet and raise up against me the ways of their ruin.

The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the plans that they have imagined.

For I have heard the slander of many; fear is on every side; because of their plottings together against me, they planned to take away my life.

Let them be humbled and put to shame, those who seek after my soul; let them be turned back and be brought to blushing, those who plot evil to me.

The wicked have laid a snare for me; yet I do not go astray from Your Commandments.

The proud have hidden cords and a trap for me; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set snares for me. Selah.

When my spirit fainted within me, then You knew my path. In the way in which I walked they have secretly laid a snare for me.

For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when You suddenly bring a raiding party on them. For they have dug a pit to take me, and have hidden snares for my feet.

You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me. You have heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their plots against me;

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, In His shadow we shall live among the nations.

Then the presidents and rulers sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom. But they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. Neither was there any error or fault found in him. Then these men said, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the Law of his God. Then these presidents and rulers assembled to the king, and said this to him: King Darius, live forever.read more.
All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, and the officials and governors, have planned together to establish a royal law, and to make a strong ban that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except from you, O king, he shall be thrown into the den of lions.

And laying hold of his hand, and drawing aside privately, the chiliarch asked him, 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 sanhedrin tomorrow, as though they would inquire something more exactly about him. But do not yield to them, for there are more than forty men of them lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves with an oath that they will neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. And now they are ready, looking for a promise from you.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate on a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers plot together, against Jehovah and against His anointed, saying,

who by the mouth of Your servant David has said, "Why did the nations rage and the people imagine vain things?

For they intended evil against You; they imagined a wicked thing; they are not able to prevail.

For with one heart they have plotted together; they have made a covenant against You--

Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet they think evil against Me.

One who devises evil against Jehovah has come forth from you, one counseling worthlessness.

Then the Pharisees left and took counsel that they might entangle Him in words.

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why do you tempt Me, hypocrites?

Shall we give, or shall we not give? But knowing their hypocrisy, He said to them, Why do you tempt Me? Bring me a denarius so that I may see.

And as they ate, He said, Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me.

The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.

And they could not take hold of His words before the people. And they marveled at His answer and were silent.

They said this, tempting Him so that they might have reason to accuse Him. But bending down, Jesus wrote on the ground with His finger, not appearing to hear.

Then Judas, having received a band and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. Then Jesus, knowing all things that were coming upon Him, went out and said to them, Whom do you seek?

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God. The prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

And when there was an assault made by both the nations and the Jews, with their rulers, in order to insult and to stone them,

And spending three months there, there being a plot against him by the Jews, being about to sail into Syria, he proposed to return through Macedonia.

so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.

Whoever causes the righteous man to go astray in an evil way, he himself shall fall into his own pit; but the upright shall inherit good.

The steps of his strength shall be hampered, and his own plans shall throw him down. For he is thrown into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a net. The trap shall take him by the heel, and the noose shall hold sway over him.read more.
The pitfall is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

Jehovah is known. He has executed judgment; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. A meditation. Selah.