'Plot' in the Bible

When Reuben heard about it, he tried to save Joseph from their plot. "Let's not do any killing,"

She looked around and there was the king, standing near a column, as was the royal custom! He was accompanied by the commanding officers, along with trumpeters who stood beside the king. All the people of the land sounded trumpets in their excitement. But Athaliah tore her clothes and bellowed, "It's a plot! A conspiracy!"

When Mordecai learned about the plot, he told Queen Esther, and she told the king in Mordecai's name.

In the twelfth year of the reign of King Ahasuerus, in the first month (the month Nisan), the (that is, the lot) was cast in Haman's presence to determine the best day and month to carry out his plot. The lot indicated the twelfth month, the month Adar.

Then Esther spoke to the king again and fell at his feet. She wept and pleaded with him for mercy to overturn the evil plan devised by Haman the Agagite and his plot against the Jewish people.

But when Esther came before the king, he ordered through a letter that the evil plot that Haman had devised against the Jewish people be rescinded, and that he and his sons be hanged on poles.

Why are the nations in an uproar, and their people involved in a vain plot?

Though they plot evil against you and devise schemes, they will not succeed.

I have heard the slander of many; it is like terror all around me, as they conspire together and plot to take my life.

Let those who seek my life be ashamed and disgraced; let those who plot evil against me be driven back and confounded.

For my enemies talk against me; those who seek to kill me plot together

They plot against your people and conspire against your cherished ones.

Won't those who plot evil go astray? But gracious love and truth are for those who plan what is good.

For fools utter contempt, and their minds plot wrong things: practicing ungodliness, spreading lies about the LORD, leaving the pangs of hungry people unsatisfied, and depriving thirsty people of drink.

Then they said, "Come, let's make up a plot against Jeremiah. After all, the priest's instruction, the wise man's counsel, and the prophet's message won't be destroyed. So let's verbally attack him. Pay no attention to anything he says!"

He'll invade the most prosperous areas of the province during a time of tranquility, accomplishing what neither his predecessors nor his ancestors ever could. He'll distribute war spoils, booty, and wealth to them, and he'll plot the overthrow of fortresses, though only for a time.

"Though I have taught them and strengthened their arms, nevertheless they plot evil against me.

don't plot evil in your heart against a neighbor, and don't tolerate false testimonies, because I hate all these things,' declares the LORD."

Immediately the Pharisees and Herodians went out and began to plot how to kill him.

but their plot became known to him. They were even watching the gates day and night to murder him,

When the brothers found out about the plot, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

and stayed there for three months. When he was about to sail for Syria, a plot was initiated against him by the Jews, so he decided to go back through Macedonia.

Since a plot against the man has been reported to me, I'm sending him to you at once, and I've also ordered his accusers to present their charges against him before you."