Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:
Acts 25:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Yerushalayim; plotting to kill him on the way. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Asking as a favor that he would have him brought to Jerusalem; [meanwhile] they were planning an ambush to slay him on the way. American Standard Version (1901) asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way. Common English Bible they asked as a favor from Festus that he summon Paul to Jerusalem. They were planning to ambush and kill him along the way. Catholic Public Domain Version asking for favor against him, so that he would order him to be led to Jerusalem, where they were maintaining an ambush in order to kill him along the way. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Requesting favour against him, that he would command him to be brought to Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him in the way. |
Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Yirmeyahu; for the law shall not perish from the Kohen, 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.
Then the princes said to the king, Let this man, we pray you, be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Yerushalayim.
but their plot became known to Sha'ul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), *Let us do evil, that good may come?* Those who say so are justly condemned.
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;