Acts 9:24

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.

Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.

David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

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.

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

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.”

When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him,

In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

When you have stayed three days, go down quickly, and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and remain by the stone Ezel.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

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.

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

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

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”

For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.

When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”

When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

He said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.

“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.

They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”

One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

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 friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up.

Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;

When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”

For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”