Proverbs 24:15

Modern English Version

Lay not in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; plunder not his resting place,

Cross References

Psalm 140:5

The proud have hidden a snare for me; they have spread cords as a net; by the wayside they have set traps for me.    Selah

Psalm 37:32

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

Psalm 56:6

They stir up strife, they lurk, they watch my steps, when they wait for my life.

Psalm 59:3

For behold, they lie in wait for my life; the mighty gather against me, not for my transgression nor for my sin, O  Lord.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Proverbs 22:28

Remove not the ancient landmark that your fathers have set.

Isaiah 32:18

My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation and in secure dwellings and in quiet resting places;

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb that is brought to the slaughter, and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with the fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living so that his name may be remembered no more.”

Matthew 26:4

and took counsel that they might take Jesus covertly and kill Him.

Acts 23:16

But when the son of Paul’s sister heard of the treachery, he went and entered the barracks and told Paul.

Acts 25:3

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

Acts 9:24

But their scheme was known by Saul. They watched the gates day and night to kill him.

1 Samuel 9:11

As they went up the hill to the city, they found young women going out to draw water and said to them, “Is the seer here?”