'Deceive' in the Bible

Why did you secretly flee from me, deceive me, and not tell me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and lyres,

Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them, “Why did you deceive us by telling us you live far away from us, when in fact you live among us?

Saul asked Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away, and he has escaped!”She answered him, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’”

When the woman saw Samuel, she screamed, and then she asked Saul, “Why did you deceive me? You are Saul!”

You know that Abner son of Ner came to deceive you and to find out about your activities and everything you’re doing.”

Elisha said, “At this time next year you will have a son in your arms.”Then she said, “No, my lord. Man of God, do not deceive your servant.”

Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”

This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; he can’t deliver you from my hand.

“Say this to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Don’t let your God, whom you trust, deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.

So now, don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, and don’t let him mislead you like this. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my power or the power of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my power!’”

Would it go well if He examined you?Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?

An honest witness does not deceive,but a dishonest witness utters lies.

Don’t testify against your neighbor without cause.Don’t deceive with your lips.

This is what the king says: “Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.

“Say this to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Don’t let your God, whom you trust, deceive you by promising that Jerusalem won’t be handed over to the king of Assyria.

Everyone has to be on guard against his friend.Don’t trust any brother,for every brother will certainly deceive,and every friend spread slander.

For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you, and don’t listen to the dreams you elicit from them,

This is what the Lord says: Don’t deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will leave us for good,’ for they will not leave.

Everyone who has a treaty with youwill drive you to the border;everyone at peace with youwill deceive and conquer you.Those who eat your breadwill set a trap for you.He will be unaware of it.

On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.

For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and they will deceive many.

Many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.

Many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and they will deceive many.

Their throat is an open grave;they deceive with their tongues.Vipers’ venom is under their lips.

for such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.

No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.

Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.

I am saying this so that no one will deceive you with persuasive arguments.

For our exhortation didn’t come from error or impurity or an intent to deceive.

Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.

I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

Little children, let no one deceive you! The one who does what is right is righteous, just as He is righteous.

He threw him into the abyss, closed it, and put a seal on it so that he would no longer deceive the nations until the 1,000 years were completed. After that, he must be released for a short time.

and will go out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the sea.