CONSPIRACY

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• Genesis 14:4

  They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.

• Genesis 16:1

  Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

• Genesis 16:2

  Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

• Genesis 16:3

  Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

• Genesis 16:4

  He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

• Genesis 16:5

  Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you.”

• Genesis 16:6

  But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

• Genesis 16:7

  Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

• Genesis 16:8

  He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”

• Genesis 16:9

  Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”

• Genesis 16:10

  Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”

• Genesis 16:11

  Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

• Genesis 16:12

  He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers.”

• Genesis 16:13

  She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”

• Genesis 16:14

  Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

• Genesis 16:15

  Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

• Genesis 16:16

  Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

• Genesis 16:17
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• Genesis 37:18

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

• Genesis 37:19

  They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.

• Genesis 37:20

  Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

• Exodus 23:1

  “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

• Exodus 23:2

  “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

• Judges 9:1

  Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

• Judges 9:2

  “Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”

• Judges 9:3

  His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, “He is our brother.”

• Judges 9:4

  They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

• Judges 9:5

  He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

• Judges 9:6

  All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.

• Judges 9:23

  Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,

• Judges 9:24

  that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

• Judges 9:25

  The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them, and Abimelech was told about it.

• Judges 9:26

  Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.

• Judges 9:27

  They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, held festival, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.

• Judges 9:28

  Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?

• Judges 9:29

  I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, “Increase your army, and come out!”

• Judges 9:30

  When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burned.

• Judges 9:31

  He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem; and behold, they incite the city against you.

• Judges 9:32

  Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

• Judges 9:33

  It shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early, and rush on the city. Behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.”

• Judges 9:34

  Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

• Judges 9:35

  Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush.

• Judges 9:36

  When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.” Zebul said to him, “You see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.”

• Judges 9:37

  Gaal spoke again and said, “Behold, people are coming down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim.”

• Judges 9:38

  Then Zebul said to him, “Now where is your mouth, that you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”

• Judges 9:39

  Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

• Judges 9:40

  Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.

• Judges 9:41

  Abimelech lived at Arumah; and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.

• Judges 16:4

  It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

• Judges 16:5

  The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

• Judges 16:6

  Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”

• Judges 16:7

  Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

• Judges 16:8

  Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

• Judges 16:9

  Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

• Judges 16:10

  Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now please tell me with which you might be bound.”

• Judges 16:11

  He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

• Judges 16:12

  So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

• Judges 16:13

  Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.”

• Judges 16:14

  She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

• Judges 16:15

  She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

• Judges 16:16

  When she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.

• Judges 16:17

  He told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”

• Judges 16:18

  When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.

• Judges 16:19

  She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

• Judges 16:20

  She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.

• Judges 16:21

  The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

• 1 Samuel 22:8

  that all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

• 2 Samuel 3:7

  Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”

• 2 Samuel 3:8

  Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to Saul’s house your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!

• 2 Samuel 3:9

  God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him;

• 2 Samuel 3:10

  to transfer the kingdom from Saul’s house, and to set up David’s throne over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.”

• 2 Samuel 3:11

  He could not answer Abner another word, because he was afraid of him.

• 2 Samuel 3:12

  Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, “Whose is the land?” and saying, “Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand will be with you, to bring all Israel around to you.”

• 2 Samuel 3:13

  He said, “Good. I will make a treaty with you, but one thing I require of you. That is, you will not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see my face.”

• 2 Samuel 3:14

  David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

• 2 Samuel 3:15

  Ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband, even from Paltiel the son of Laish.

• 2 Samuel 3:16

  Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he returned.

• 2 Samuel 3:17

  Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, “In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.

• 2 Samuel 3:18

  Now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.’”

• 2 Samuel 3:19

  Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin.

• 2 Samuel 3:20

  So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.

• 2 Samuel 3:21

  Abner said to David, “I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your soul desires.” David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

• 2 Samuel 15:10

  But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’”

• 2 Samuel 15:11

  Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.

• 2 Samuel 15:12

  Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 15:13

  A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.”

• 1 Kings 14:2

  Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognized as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that that I would be king over this people.

• 1 Kings 15:27

  Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

• 1 Kings 16:9

  His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;

• 1 Kings 21:8

  So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

• 1 Kings 21:9

  She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 1 Kings 21:10

  Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”

• 1 Kings 21:11

  The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

• 1 Kings 21:12

  They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

• 1 Kings 21:13

  The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

• 2 Kings 9:14

  So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;

• 2 Kings 9:15

  but king Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) Jehu said, “If this is your thinking, then let no one escape and go out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.”

• 2 Kings 9:16

  So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram.

• 2 Kings 9:17

  Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”

• 2 Kings 9:18

  So one went on horseback to meet him, and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!” The watchman said, “The messenger came to them, but he isn’t coming back.”

• 2 Kings 9:19

  Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!”

• 2 Kings 9:20

  The watchman said, “He came to them, and isn’t coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”

• 2 Kings 9:21

  Joram said, “Get ready!” They got his chariot ready. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him on Naboth the Jezreelite’s land.

• 2 Kings 9:22

  When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?”

• 2 Kings 9:23

  Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, “This is treason, Ahaziah!”

• 2 Kings 9:24

  Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Joram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

• 2 Kings 9:25

  Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:

• 2 Kings 9:26

  ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”

• 2 Kings 11:4

  In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into Yahweh’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in Yahweh’s house, and showed them the king’s son.

• 2 Kings 11:5

  He commanded them, saying, “This is what you must do: a third of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;

• 2 Kings 11:6

  a third of you shall be at the gate Sur; and a third of you at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.

• 2 Kings 11:7

  The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of Yahweh’s house around the king.

• 2 Kings 11:8

  You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.”

• 2 Kings 11:9

  The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

• 2 Kings 11:10

  The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David’s, which were in Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 11:11

  The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king.

• 2 Kings 11:12

  Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”

• 2 Kings 11:13

  When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house:

• 2 Kings 11:14

  and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”

• 2 Kings 11:15

  Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”

• 2 Kings 11:16

  So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house, and she was slain there.

• 2 Kings 12:20

  His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

• 2 Kings 14:19

  They made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

• 2 Kings 15:10

  Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 15:23

  In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two years.

• 2 Kings 15:24

  He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.

• 2 Kings 15:25

  Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him and attacked him in Samaria, in the fortress of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites. He killed him, and reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 15:30

  Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, attacked him, killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

• 2 Kings 19:37

  As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 21:23

  The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.

• 2 Chronicles 25:27

  Now from the time that Amaziah turned away from following Yahweh, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. He fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.

• Esther 2:21

  In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

• Esther 2:22

  This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.

• Esther 2:23

  When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.

• Jeremiah 11:9

  Yahweh said to me, “A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 11:19

  But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn’t know that they had devised devices against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

• Jeremiah 18:18

  Then they said, “Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

• Daniel 3:8

  Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.

• Daniel 3:9

  They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live for ever.

• Daniel 3:10

  You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;

• Daniel 3:11

  and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.

• Daniel 3:12

  There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not respected you. They don’t serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.

• Daniel 3:13

  Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.

• Daniel 3:14

  Nebuchadnezzar answered them, Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don’t serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?

• Daniel 3:15

  Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good: but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?

• Daniel 3:16

  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

• Daniel 3:17

  If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

• Daniel 3:18

  But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.

• Daniel 6:4

  Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

• Daniel 6:5

  Then these men said, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

• Daniel 6:6

  Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever.

• Daniel 6:7

  All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

• Daniel 6:8

  Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.

• Daniel 6:9

  Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

• Daniel 6:10

  When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

• Daniel 6:11

  Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

• Daniel 6:12

  Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.

• Daniel 6:13

  Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.

• Daniel 6:14

  Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.

• Daniel 6:15

  Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.

• Daniel 6:16

  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.

• Daniel 6:17

  A stone was brought, and laid on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

• Matthew 12:14

  But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

• Matthew 21:38

  But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’

• Matthew 21:39

  So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

• Matthew 21:40

  When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”

• Matthew 21:41

  They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”

• Matthew 26:3

  Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

• Matthew 26:4

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

• Matthew 27:1

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

• Matthew 27:2

  and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

• Mark 3:6

  The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

• Acts 18:12

  But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

• Acts 23:12

  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.

• Acts 23:13

  There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

• Acts 23:14

  They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

• Acts 23:15

  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.”