80 Bible Verses about Trap

Can anyone capture him by the eyes, or trap him and pierce his nose?

Now his people have been plundered. They are locked up in dungeons and hidden away in prisons. They were robbed and plundered, with no one to come to their rescue.

The nations heard about him. He was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where there is no trap for him? Will a trap spring up from the ground when nothing at all sprung it?

To keep the Ephraimites from escaping, the Gileadites captured the places where the Jordan could be crossed. When any Ephraimite who was trying to escape would ask permission to cross, the men of Gilead would ask: Are you an Ephraimite? If he said: No, they would tell him to say Shibboleth. But he would say Sibboleth, because he could not pronounce it correctly. Then they would kill him at the Jordan River crossing. Forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites were killed.

You are snared with the words of your mouth. You are captured by the words of your mouth!

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips. The righteous will depart from trouble.

God will destroy those who slander others. He will destroy those who prevent the punishment of criminals and those who tell lies to keep honest people from getting justice.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit! With the mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, but inwardly he sets an ambush for him.

Pharisees and Herodians went to him that they might catch him in talk.

Rebekah said to her son Jacob: I have just heard your father speak to your brother Esau. He said: 'Bring me some wild game, and prepare a good-tasting meal for me to eat. Then I will bless you in the presence of Jehovah before I die.' Now listen to me, Son, and do what I tell you.read more.
Go to the flock and pick out two fat young goats. I will cook them and make some of that food your father likes so much. You take it to him to eat. Then he will give you his blessing before he dies. Jacob said to his mother: You know that Esau is a hairy man. I have smooth skin. Perhaps my father will touch me and find out that I am deceiving him. That way, I will bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.

When Joseph came to his brothers, they pulled off his fancy coat. They put him into a water pit. It had no water in it.

The woman answered: You know what King Saul has done? He forced the fortunetellers and mediums to leave Israel. Are you trying to trap me and get me killed?

They answered: Saul wanted to destroy us and leave none of us alive anywhere in Israel.

But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against the king. Then they made Josiah his son king in his place.

I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me. My priests and my responsible men are dying. They look for food to give them new life.

He who receives a dishonest profit for his house will have trouble. He may set his nest on high in order to be delivered from the hand of evil! You have purposed a shameful thing for your house. You have sinned against yourself by destroying many people. The stones will cry out from the wall. The beams out of the woodwork will answer it.

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

Those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts. These draw men into ruin and destruction.

Do not allow them to live in your land for they will make you sin against me. If you serve their gods it will be a snare to you.

Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going. It will become a snare in your midst.

Destroy all the peoples whom Jehovah your God gives you. Do not look at them with pity. Do not serve their gods. For that would be a snare to you.

If you are disloyal and join with the nations that are still left among you and intermarry with them, Jehovah your God will no longer drive these nations out as you advance. Rather, they will be as dangerous for you as a trap or a pit and as painful as a whip on your back or thorns in your eyes. This will last until none of you are left in this good land that Jehovah your God gave you.

I also said: 'I will not drive them out from before you. They will be thorns in your sides. Their gods will snare (trap) you.'

Gideon made an idol from the gold and placed it in his hometown, Ophrah. The Israelites abandoned God and went there to worship the idol. It was a trap for Gideon and his family.

How can you say you love me, she asked: when you do not mean it? You have made a fool of me three times. You still have not told me what makes you strong. She kept asking him, day after day. He got sick and tired of her nagging him.

Righteousness will deliver the upright. Greed will capture the unfaithful.

It is dangerous to make a vow to God before counting the cost.

Do not befriend an angry man. Do not associate with a man who throws fits. If you do you will learn his ways and you will become trapped.

Tell them, 'This is what the Lord Jehovah says: How horrible it will be for women who sew magic charms for people's wrists and make magic veils of every size for people's heads. You want to trap people. You want to control the lives of my people for your own profit.

Hear this, O you priests and pay attention, O house of Israel. Give ear (listen)! O house of the king the judgment is about you. You have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.

Fear of man brings a snare (trap). He who trusts in Jehovah will be safe.

Others from Benjamin and Judah came to David at the stronghold. David went out to meet them and said: If you have come in peace to help me, we are friends. But if you have come to betray me to my enemies when I am innocent, then may the God of our ancestors see and judge you.

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

As for a rogue, his weapons are evil. He devises wicked schemes to destroy the afflicted with slander, even though the needy one speaks what is right.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit and he ceased to be wise and do good. He plans wickedness upon his bed. He walks on a path that is not good. He does not despise evil.

They devise evil plans and say: We will commit the perfect crime. The thoughts and the heart of man are deep.

Fraud is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

Deceit is in the heart of those who contrive evil, but the counselors of peace have joy.

An ungodly man digs up evil. It lies on his lips like a burning fire. A perverse man sows discord. A whisperer separates good friends. A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him in bad ways.read more.
He shuts his eyes to devise perversity. He moves his lips to bring evil.

Those who seek my life lay traps for me. Those who are out to harm me talk about ruining me. All day long they think of ways to deceive me.

While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

They plotted against Zechariah. Then they followed the king's order and stoned him to death in the courtyard of Jehovah's Temple.

Word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our enemies, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it though even then I had not put up the gates in the gateways. Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying: Come; let us have a meeting in one of the little towns in the lowland of Ono. But their purpose was to do me evil. I sent men to them saying: I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come. Should the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come to you?read more.
They sent this to me four times. I sent them the same answer.

Because God has untied my cord and has made me suffer, they are no longer restrained in my presence. They have attacked me on my right side like a mob. They trip my feet and then prepare ways to destroy me.

The wicked proudly persecutes the poor people. He will be caught in the schemes that he contrived.

I have heard the whispering of many people, terror on every side, while they made plans together against me. They were plotting to take my life.

Let those who seek my life be put to shame and disgraced. Let those who plan my downfall be turned back in confusion.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I have not gone astray from your precepts.

Arrogant people have laid a trap for me. They have spread out a net with ropes. They have set traps for me along the road.

When I begin to lose hope, you already know what I am experiencing. My enemies have hidden a trap for me on the path where I walk.

Wicked men are found among my people. They lie in ambush like bird catchers. They set traps and catch men.

Let an outcry be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring raiders upon them. For they have dug a pit to capture me and hidden snares for my feet.

You saw all the evil they did to me and all their designs against me. Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Jehovah, and all their designs against me.

The breath of our nostrils, Jehovah's anointed have been captured in their pits. We said, Under the shadow we live among the nations.

Then the commissioners and the governors sought to find a charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom. They could find no charge, nor error, nor fault, for he was faithful. These men said: We shall not find any charge against Daniel, unless we find it against him in the Law of his God. Then these commissioners and governors assembled before the king, and said: King Darius, may you live for a very long time.read more.
All the governors of the kingdom, the deputies and the governors, the counselors consulted together to establish a royal statute. They made a strong decree, that whoever prays to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of lions.

The commander took him by the hand and led him off by himself, and asked: What do you have to tell me? He said: The Jewish authorities have agreed to ask you tomorrow to take Paul down to the Council. They want you to pretend the Council wants to get more accurate information about him. Do not give in to them. There are more than forty men lying in wait for him. They are united with an oath that they will neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready and looking for a promise from you.

Why do the nations conspire together and rage? Why do the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against Jehovah and against his Anointed One.

You spoke by the mouth of your servant David: Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? (Psalm 2:1)

Even though they scheme and devise evil against you, they will not succeed.

For they have come to an agreement united in thought. They form an alliance against you.

Although I trained (disciplined) and strengthened their arms (might) (power), yet they devise evil against me.

There is one who comes out from you [O Nineveh]. He counsels wickedness and devises evil against Jehovah.

The Pharisees took counsel how they might trap him in his talk.

Jesus perceived their wickedness. He said: Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

Should we pay or should we not pay? Knowing their hypocrisy he said to them: Why do you test me? Show me a denarius.

While they ate, he said: One of you will betray me.

The Pharisees went away and immediately conspired with the Herodians. They tried to decide how they might destroy him.

They were not able to apprehend him in front of the people. They were amazed by his answer and kept quiet.

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Judas brought a band of armed men and police from the chief priests and Pharisees there with lights and with weapons. Jesus knew what was about to happen to him. He asked: Whom do you seek?

Prophets are God's watchmen over Ephraim. Yet, traps are set on every prophet's path and people are hostile in the Temple of their God.

Then some of the people of the nations and Jews, together with their leaders, decided to mistreat the apostles and stone them.

After three months he set sail for Syria. He decided to return through Macedonia. He left there because the Jews formed a plot against him.

We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error.

Whoever leads decent people into evil will fall into his own pit. Innocent people will inherit good things.

The vigor of his step is weakened. His own schemes will bring his downfall. His feet cast him into a net and he wanders into its mesh. A trap seizes him by the heel and a snare holds him fast.read more.
A noose is hidden for him on the ground and a trap lies in his path.

Jehovah has revealed himself by his righteous judgments. The wicked are trapped by their deeds.