'Plotting' in the Bible

But David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

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.

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?