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Psalms 56:6
They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.
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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.
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1 Samuel 24 11-1 Samuel 24 12
Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.
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Psalms 21:11
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
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Psalms 64:5-6
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say,“ Who will see them?”They plot injustice, saying,“ We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
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Hosea 7:6
For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
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Psalms 38:12
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
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1 Samuel 26 1-1 Samuel 26 25
The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying,“ Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.Then David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him.Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying,“ Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said,“ I will go down with you.”So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.Then Abishai said to David,“ God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”David said to Abishai,“ Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”David said,“ As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let’s go.”So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head; and they went away: and no man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh had fallen on them.Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them;and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying,“ Don’t you answer, Abner?” Then Abner answered,“ Who are you who cries to the king?”David said to Abner,“ Aren’t you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.This thing isn’t good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”Saul knew David’s voice, and said,“ Is this your voice, my son David?” David said,“ It is my voice, my lord, O king.”He said,“ Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying,‘ Go, serve other gods!’Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”Then Saul said,“ I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes today. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.”David answered,“ Behold the spear, O king! Then let one of the young men come over and get it.Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.Behold, as your life was respected today in my eyes, so let my life be respected in Yahweh’s eyes, and let him deliver me out of all oppression.”Then Saul said to David,“ You are blessed, my son David. You will both do mightily, and will surely prevail.” So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.
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Psalms 2:1-2
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
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Proverbs 12:20
Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
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Psalms 120:7
I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.
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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?
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Nahum 1:11
There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.
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1 Samuel 23 19-1 Samuel 23 24
Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying,“ Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?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.”Saul said,“ You are blessed by Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me.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.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.”They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.
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Micah 2:1-3
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.They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.Therefore Yahweh says:“ Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.
