Proverbs 1:11

Advice To The Young

¹⁰ My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent! ¹¹ If they say, "Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously. ¹² We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

Let Us

Shed Blood

No

Proverbs 1:18

but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!

Proverbs 12:6

The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.

Jeremiah 5:26

"Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.

Psalm 10:8-10

He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim.

Psalm 17:12

He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.

Psalm 35:7

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

Psalm 56:6

They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life.

Psalm 64:5-6

They encourage one another to carry out their evil deed. They plan how to hide snares, and boast, "Who will see them?"

Proverbs 1:16

for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

Proverbs 30:14

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.

Jeremiah 11:19

Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying, "Let's destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let's remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more."

Jeremiah 18:18-20

Then some people said, "Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God's word. Come on! Let's bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says."

Micah 7:2

Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.

Matthew 26:3-4

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

John 15:25

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without reason.'

Acts 23:15

So now you and the council request the commanding officer to bring him down to you, as if you were going to determine his case by conducting a more thorough inquiry. We are ready to kill him before he comes near this place."

Acts 25:3

Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.