Bible Cross References
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Proverbs 1:11-19
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Suppose they say, "Come on; let's find someone to kill! Let's attack some innocent people for the fun of it!
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They may be alive and well when we find them, but they'll be dead when we're through with them!
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We'll find all kinds of riches and fill our houses with loot!
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Come and join us, and we'll all share what we steal."
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My child, don't go with people like that. Stay away from them.
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They can't wait to do something bad. They're always ready to kill.
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It does no good to spread a net when the bird you want to catch is watching,
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but people like that are setting a trap for themselves, a trap in which they will die.
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Robbery always claims the life of the robber---this is what happens to anyone who lives by violence.
2 Samuel 17:1-4
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Not long after that, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and tonight I will set out after David.
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I will attack him while he is tired and discouraged. He will be frightened, and all his men will run away. I will kill only the king
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and then bring back all his men to you, like a bride returning to her husband. You want to kill only one man; the rest of the people will be safe."
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This seemed like good advice to Absalom and all the Israelite leaders.
Isaiah 59:7
You are always planning something evil, and you can hardly wait to do it. You never hesitate to murder innocent people. You leave ruin and destruction wherever you go,
Jeremiah 5:26
"Evildoers live among my people; they lie in wait like those who lay nets to catch birds, but they have set their traps to catch people.
Micah 7:1
It's hopeless! I am like a hungry person who finds no fruit left on the trees and no grapes on the vines. All the grapes and all the tasty figs have been picked.
Micah 7:2
There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.
Acts 23:12
The next morning some Jews met together and made a plan. They took a vow that they would not eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.
Acts 23:15
Now then, you and the Council send word to the Roman commander to bring Paul down to you, pretending that you want to get more accurate information about him. But we will be ready to kill him before he ever gets here."
Acts 25:3
to do them the favor of having Paul come to Jerusalem, for they had made a plot to kill him on the way.
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Proverbs 14:3
Proud fools talk too much; the words of the wise protect them.
Esther 4:7-14
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Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him and just how much money Haman had promised to put into the royal treasury if all the Jews were killed.
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He gave Hathach a copy of the proclamation that had been issued in Susa, ordering the destruction of the Jews. Mordecai asked him to take it to Esther, explain the situation to her, and have her go and plead with the king and beg him to have mercy on her people.
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and Esther gave him this message to take back to Mordecai:
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"If anyone, man or woman, goes to the inner courtyard and sees the king without being summoned, that person must die. That is the law; everyone, from the king's advisers to the people in the provinces, knows that. There is only one way to get around this law: if the king holds out his gold scepter to someone, then that person's life is spared. But it has been a month since the king sent for me."
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When Mordecai received Esther's message,
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he sent her this warning: "Don't imagine that you are safer than any other Jew just because you are in the royal palace.
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If you keep quiet at a time like this, help will come from heaven to the Jews, and they will be saved, but you will die and your father's family will come to an end. Yet who knows---maybe it was for a time like this that you were made queen!"
Esther 7:4-6
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My people and I have been sold for slaughter. If it were nothing more serious than being sold into slavery, I would have kept quiet and not bothered you about it; but we are about to be destroyed---exterminated!"
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Then King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, "Who dares to do such a thing? Where is this man?"
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Esther answered, "Our enemy, our persecutor, is this evil man Haman!" Haman faced the king and queen with terror.