Proverbs 1:11

Advice To The Young

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice you,
don’t be persuaded.
¹¹ If they say—“Come with us!
Let’s set an ambush and kill someone.
Let’s attack some innocent person just for fun!
¹² Let’s swallow them alive, like Sheol,
still healthy as they go down to the Pit.

Let Us

Shed Blood

No

Proverbs 1:18

but they set an ambush to kill themselves;
they attack their own lives.

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked are a deadly ambush,
but the speech of the upright rescues them.

Jeremiah 5:26

for wicked men live among My people.
They watch like fowlers lying in wait.
They set a trap;
they catch men.

Psalm 10:8-10

He waits in ambush near the villages;
he kills the innocent in secret places.
His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless;

Psalm 17:12

They are like a lion eager to tear,
like a young lion lurking in ambush.

Psalm 35:7

They hid their net for me without cause;
they dug a pit for me without cause.

Psalm 56:6

They stir up strife, they lurk;
they watch my steps
while they wait to take my life.

Psalm 64:5-6

They encourage each other in an evil plan;
they talk about hiding traps and say,
“Who will see them?”

Proverbs 1:16

because their feet run toward trouble
and they hurry to commit murder.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are swords,
whose fangs are knives,
devouring the oppressed from the land
and the needy from among mankind.

Jeremiah 11:19

for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter.
I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;
let’s cut him off from the land of the living
so that his name will no longer be remembered.”

Jeremiah 18:18-20

Then certain ones said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will never be lost from the priest, or counsel from the wise, or an oracle from the prophet. Come, let’s denounce him and pay no attention to all his words.”

Micah 7:2

Godly people have vanished from the land;
there is no one upright among the people.
All of them wait in ambush to shed blood;
they hunt each other with a net.

Matthew 26:3-4

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

John 15:25

But this happened so that the statement written in their scripture might be fulfilled: They hated Me for no reason.

Acts 23:15

So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. However, before he gets near, we are ready to kill him.”

Acts 25:3

asking him to do them a favor against Paul, that he might summon him to Jerusalem. They were preparing an ambush along the road to kill him.