Acts 23:21
Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”
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Acts 23:21
Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”
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Exodus 23:2
“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
John 18:40
Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
Acts 24:27
But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.
Acts 25:9
But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and be judged by me there concerning these things?”
Acts 25:10
But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.
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Numbers 30:2
When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
Numbers 30:3
“Also, when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house, in her youth,
Numbers 30:4
and her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers 30:10
“If she vowed in her husband’s house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,
Deuteronomy 23:23
You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.
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Deuteronomy 13:6
If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
Deuteronomy 13:7
of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth—
Deuteronomy 13:8
you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;
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Deuteronomy 32:21
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
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Joshua 8:4
He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
Joshua 8:16
All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
Judges 9:25
The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them; and Abimelech was told about it.
Judges 20:29
Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
Judges 20:33
All the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.
Judges 20:36
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck, for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.
1 Samuel 15:2
Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way when he came up out of Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:5
Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.
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Judges 16:2
The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.”
Judges 16:3
Samson lay until midnight, then arose at midnight and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city, with the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
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1 Samuel 14:24
The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies.” So none of the people tasted food.
Romans 9:3
For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh
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1 Samuel 19:1
Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.
Psalms 10:8
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
Psalms 27:2
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms 37:33
Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
Psalms 56:6
They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.
Psalms 64:2
Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
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.
Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
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.”
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 26:5
But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”
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1 Samuel 23:20
Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”
1 Samuel 23:21
Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, for you have had compassion on me.
1 Samuel 23:22
Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning.
1 Samuel 23:23
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself; and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”
2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
2 Samuel 17:2
I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
2 Samuel 17:3
and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”
2 Samuel 17:4
The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
Psalms 119:61
The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.
Psalms 119:69
The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
Psalms 119:85
The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
Psalms 119:86
All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
Psalms 119:87
They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
Psalms 119:95
The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
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1 Kings 17:3
“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
1 Kings 18:4
for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings 18:10
As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they didn’t find you.
2 Chronicles 25:15
Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet who said to him, “Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of your hand?”
Proverbs 28:12
When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
Jeremiah 26:20
There was also a man who prophesied in Yahweh’s name, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 26:21
When Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt.
Jeremiah 26:22
Then Jehoiakim the king sent Elnathan the son of Achbor and certain men with him into Egypt.
Jeremiah 26:23
They fetched Uriah out of Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
Jeremiah 26:24
But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they didn’t give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
Jeremiah 36:19
Then the princes said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah go hide. Don’t let anyone know where you are.”
Jeremiah 36:26
The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.
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2 Kings 6:8
Now the king of Syria was at war against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”
2 Kings 6:9
The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, “Beware that you not pass this place, for the Syrians are coming down there.”
2 Kings 6:10
The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice.
2 Kings 6:11
The king of Syria’s heart was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, “Won’t you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?”
2 Kings 6:12
One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
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Job 5:12
He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
Psalms 2:1
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
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 21:11
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
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 37:36
Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
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Psalms 102:8
My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.
Acts 23:31
So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
Acts 23:32
But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.
Acts 23:33
When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.
Acts 23:34
When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,
Acts 23:35
“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.
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Job 31:31
if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
Psalms 17:12
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Psalms 64:3
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
Psalms 64:4
to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.
Proverbs 1:16
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
John 18:31
Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.” Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”
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Psalms 50:18
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
Proverbs 11:21
Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh; they shall certainly not be unpunished.
Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
Micah 7:5
Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
Acts 5:9
But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”
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Esther 2:22
This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.
Ecclesiastes 10:20
Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom, for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.
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Isaiah 58:4
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
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Jeremiah 26:15
Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
Jeremiah 37:20
Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”
Jeremiah 38:6
Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
Jeremiah 38:7
Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate),
Jeremiah 38:8
Ebedmelech went out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying,
Jeremiah 38:9
“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”
Acts 28:18
who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.
Acts 28:19
But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.
Acts 28:24
Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.
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Jeremiah 44:25
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, “We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her.” “ ‘Establish then your vows, and perform your vows.’
Jeremiah 44:26
“Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by my great name,’ says Yahweh, ‘that my name will no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord Yahweh lives.”
Jeremiah 44:27
Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.
Mark 6:22
When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, “Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.”
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Amos 7:12
Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there,
Luke 13:31
On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Get out of here and go away, for Herod wants to kill you.”
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Matthew 23:16
“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’
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Matthew 23:18
And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’
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John 18:12
So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,
Acts 21:14
When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”
Acts 21:31
As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
Acts 21:37
As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?” He said, “Do you know Greek?
Acts 22:22
They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice and said, “Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!”
Acts 22:24
the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.
Acts 22:25
When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?”
Acts 22:26
When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!”
Acts 22:27
The commanding officer came and asked him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?” He said, “Yes.”
Acts 22:28
The commanding officer answered, “I bought my citizenship for a great price.” Paul said, “But I was born a Roman.”
Acts 23:10
When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them and bring him into the barracks.
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Acts 25:4
However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.
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Acts 25:5
“Let them therefore”, he said, “that are in power among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him.”
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Matthew 10:17
But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.
Mark 13:9
“But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
Mark 13:12
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
Acts 20:19
serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
2 Corinthians 11:24
Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
2 Corinthians 11:25
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
Philippians 3:2
Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.
2 Timothy 4:15
Beware of him, for he greatly opposed our words.
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Mark 15:43
Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for God’s Kingdom, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
Acts 9:29
preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.
Acts 9:30
When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
Acts 17:10
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Acts 17:12
Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
Acts 17:15
But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
Ephesians 4:14
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
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1 John 3:11
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another—
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Jude 1:21
Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
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