Psalms 2:1
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
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Psalms 2:1
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
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Psalms 2:2
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
Psalms 2:3
“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”
Psalms 2:4
He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
Psalms 2:5
Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
Matthew 2:3
When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
Matthew 2:4
Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.
Matthew 2:6
‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah; for out of you shall come a governor who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’ ”
Luke 1:51
He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Genesis 11:6
Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
Luke 23:2
They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”
Romans 1:21
Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
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Acts 4:24
When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
Acts 4:25
who by the mouth of your servant David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
Acts 4:26
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.’
Acts 4:27
“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,
Isaiah 8:9
Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
Joshua 11:1
When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,
Psalms 33:10
Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Ezekiel 38:10
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
Luke 7:50
He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”
Luke 23:12
Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.
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Psalms 2:6
“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
Psalms 2:7
I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
Psalms 2:8
Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
Psalms 2:9
You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
Psalms 2:12
Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
Luke 19:27
But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”
Genesis 49:10
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. The obedience of the peoples will be to him.
Numbers 24:19
Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.”
Psalms 110:2
Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.
Isaiah 9:6
For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
Acts 5:31
God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
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Acts 4:28
to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
Luke 18:32
For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.
2 Corinthians 10:5
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
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Psalms 83:2
For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
Psalms 83:3
They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
Psalms 83:4
“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
Psalms 83:5
For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
Psalms 83:6
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
Psalms 83:7
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Psalms 83:8
Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
Nehemiah 4:8
and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.
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Revelation 11:15
The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
Revelation 11:16
The twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God’s throne, fell on their faces and worshiped God,
Revelation 11:17
saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and reigned.
Revelation 11:18
The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
2 Samuel 5:17
When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold.
1 Chronicles 14:8
When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went out against them.
2 Samuel 5:6
The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, “The blind and the lame will keep you out of here,” thinking, “David can’t come in here.”
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Psalms 46:6
The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice and the earth melted.
Nahum 1:9
What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
Nahum 1:11
One has gone out of you who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.
Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
John 15:23
He who hates me, hates my Father also.
John 15:24
If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.
2 Kings 19:28
Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’
Isaiah 37:29
Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
Isaiah 49:7
Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Acts 7:51
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
Acts 9:4
He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
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Psalms 1:2
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
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Acts 13:33
that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’
Psalms 2:10
Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
Psalms 2:11
Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Hebrews 1:5
For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”
Hebrews 5:5
So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.”
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Daniel 6:6
Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King Darius, live forever!
Daniel 6:11
Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
Daniel 6:15
Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.”
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Zechariah 14:2
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
Zechariah 14:3
Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Joel 3:10
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
Joel 3:12
“Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Revelation 16:14
for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God the Almighty.
Revelation 17:14
These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are called, chosen, and faithful.”
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Matthew 26:3
Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
Matthew 26:4
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.
Matthew 26:5
But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”
Matthew 27:1
Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.
Matthew 21:38
But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and seize his inheritance.’
Luke 6:11
But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.
Psalms 22:12
Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
Psalms 22:16
For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
Psalms 59:3
For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
Matthew 21:46
When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.
Mark 14:1
It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception and kill him.
Luke 4:28
They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue as they heard these things.
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Psalms 64:2
Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
Acts 23:12
When it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
Acts 23:13
There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.
Psalms 21:11
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
Psalms 140:2
those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
Psalms 4:2
You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood? Selah.
Psalms 62:3
How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”
Psalms 64:6
They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
Isaiah 59:4
No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
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Psalms 93:3
The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
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John 11:47
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
John 11:48
If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
John 11:49
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
John 11:50
nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
Luke 22:66
As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,
Acts 4:5
In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.
Acts 4:6
Annas the high priest was there, with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were relatives of the high priest.
Acts 4:7
When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”
Luke 20:19
The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
Luke 22:2
The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.
John 11:53
So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
Acts 4:17
But so that this spreads no further among the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”
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Acts 7:54
Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
Acts 5:33
But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.
Acts 5:17
But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy
Acts 26:11
Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
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Psalms 36:4
He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
Ezekiel 11:2
He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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Micah 4:11
Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.”
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Psalms 1:1
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
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Psalms 93:4
Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
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Micah 4:12
But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
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Acts 17:5
But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
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Acts 17:6
When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
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