1 Samuel 18:21

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.

that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.”

Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”

Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’ ” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.

Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;

know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’ ”

The woman said, “Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;

Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house.

and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn’t save with sword and spear; for the battle is Yahweh’s, and he will give you into our hand.”

When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

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.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,

but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.”

The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die.”

Nathan said to David, “You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”

For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes.

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

Moab is destroyed. Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.