'Plotting' in the Bible
When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”
So it happened that the Jews who were living near them came and warned us repeatedly about all the schemes they were plotting against us.
“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,So that their hands cannot attain success.
In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
All day long they cause me trouble; they make a habit of plotting my demise.
Whoever winks knowingly is plotting deceit; anyone who purses his lips is bent towards evil.
Listen, earth!I am about to bring disaster on these people,the fruit of their own plotting,for they have paid no attention to My word.They have rejected My instruction.
Pay attention to me, O Lord [and intercede];Listen to what my adversaries are saying [and are plotting against me]—
Yet You, O Lord, knowAll their deadly plotting against me;Do not forgive their wickednessOr blot out their sin from Your sight.But let them be overthrown before You;Deal with them in the time of Your anger.
How long will they go on plotting to make my people forget who I am through the dreams they tell one another? That is just as bad as what their ancestors did when they forgot who I am by worshiping the god Baal.
Then he told me, "Son of Man, these men are plotting evil and are giving wicked advice in this city.
For their hearts are like an ovenAs they approach their plotting;Their anger smolders all night,In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
Immediately the Pharisees went out and started plotting with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.
plotting against Him to catch Him in something He might say.
and said, “You [Elymas] who are full of every [kind of] deceit, and every [kind of] fraud, you son of the devil, enemy of everything that is right and good, will you never stop perverting the straight paths of the Lord?
serving the Lord in all humility, and with tears, and amid trials which came upon me through the plotting of the Jews--
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.