'Lying in wait' in the Bible

And after three months stay, as the Jews were lying in wait for him, when he was just embarking for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

serving the Lord with all humility, and with many tears and trials, which have befallen me through the lying in wait of the Jews:

Now Paul's sister's son having heard of their lying in wait, came, and entering into the fortress told Paul.

But do not thou consent to them: for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves under an anathema, neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now they are in readiness, waiting only to procure the promise from thee.

begging it as a favour from him, that he would send him back to Jerusalem, lying in wait for him to kill him on the road.