'Snare' in the Bible

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not realize that Egypt is destroyed?”

They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

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

You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

know with certainty that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; but they will become as thorns in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you.’”

Gideon made it into an ephod, and placed it in his city, Ophrah, and all Israel played the harlot with it there, so that it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

Saul thought, “I will give her to him that she may become a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David, “For a second time you may be my son-in-law today.”

But the woman said to him, “Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who are mediums and spiritists from the land. Why are you then laying a snare for my life to bring about my death?”

“A snare seizes him by the heel,And a trap snaps shut on him.

May their table before them become a snare;And when they are in peace, may it become a trap.

For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapperAnd from the deadly pestilence.

And served their idols,Which became a snare to them.

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

Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper;The snare is broken and we have escaped.

Until an arrow pierces through his liver;As a bird hastens to the snare,So he does not know that it will cost him his life.

A fool’s mouth is his ruin,And his lips are the snare of his soul.

It is a trap for a man to say rashly, “It is holy!”And after the vows to make inquiry.

Or you will learn his waysAnd find a snare for yourself.

The fear of man brings a snare,But he who trusts in the Lord will be exalted.

Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.

“Then He shall become a sanctuary;But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over,And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Terror and pit and snareConfront you, O inhabitant of the earth.

Then it will be that he who flees the report of disaster will fall into the pit,And he who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare;For the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth shake.

“Terror, pit and snare are coming upon you,O inhabitant of Moab,” declares the Lord.

“The one who flees from the terrorWill fall into the pit,And the one who climbs up out of the pitWill be caught in the snare;For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab,The year of their punishment,” declares the Lord.

“I set a snare for you and you were also caught, O Babylon,While you yourself were not aware;You have been found and also seizedBecause you have engaged in conflict with the Lord.”

I will also spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. And I will bring him to Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.

I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. Then I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there regarding the unfaithful act which he has committed against Me.

Hear this, O priests!Give heed, O house of Israel!Listen, O house of the king!For the judgment applies to you,For you have been a snare at MizpahAnd a net spread out on Tabor.

Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,And there is only hostility in the house of his God.

And David says,“Let their table become a snare and a trap,And a stumbling block and a retribution to them.

And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.