'Trap' in the Bible

know for certain that the Lord our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God gave you.

Jehoram turned his chariot around and took off. He said to Ahaziah, "It's a trap, Ahaziah!"

A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.

A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.

I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me.

They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it! (Selah)

You led us into a trap; you caused us to suffer.

May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends!

The arrogant dig pits to trap me, which violates your law.

The wicked lay a trap for me, but I do not wander from your precepts.

Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

for the Lord will be the source of your confidence, and he will guard your foot from being caught in a trap.

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.

till an arrow pierces his liver -- like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.

He will become a sanctuary, but a stone that makes a person trip, and a rock that makes one stumble -- to the two houses of Israel. He will become a trap and a snare to the residents of Jerusalem.

Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They are always telling lies. Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths. But their minds are thinking up ways to trap them.

Anyone who flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit. Anyone who climbs out of the pit will be caught in a trap. For the time is coming when I will punish the people of Moab. I, the Lord, affirm it!

I set a trap for you, Babylon; you were caught before you knew it. You fought against me. So you were found and captured.

Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen closely, O king! For judgment is about to overtake you! For you were like a trap to Mizpah, like a net spread out to catch Tabor.

Does a bird swoop down into a trap on the ground if there is no bait? Does a trap spring up from the ground unless it has surely caught something?

Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to trap him with his own words.

Thus they were unable in the presence of the people to trap him with his own words. And stunned by his answer, they fell silent.

"But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

And David says, "Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister.

And he must be well thought of by those outside the faith, so that he may not fall into disgrace and be caught by the devil's trap.

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

and they will come to their senses and escape the devil's trap where they are held captive to do his will.