Proverbs 12:6 Cross References

Proverbs 12:6

6: The words of the wicked are like a murderous ambush, but the words of the godly save lives.

The talk of fools is a rod for their backs, but the words of the wise keep them out of trouble.

"Among my people are wicked men who lie in wait for victims like a hunter hiding in a blind. They are continually setting traps for other people.

They may say, "Come and join us. Let's hide and kill someone! Let's ambush the innocent!
Let's swallow them alive as the grave swallows its victims. Though they are in the prime of life, they will go down into the pit of death.
And the loot we'll get! We'll fill our houses with all kinds of things!
Come on, throw in your lot with us; we'll split our loot with you."
Don't go along with them, my child! Stay far away from their paths.

Their feet run to do evil, and they rush to commit murder. They think only about sinning. Wherever they go, misery and destruction follow them.

You and the high council should tell the commander to bring Paul back to the council again," they requested. "Pretend you want to examine his case more fully. We will kill him on the way."

Now Ahithophel urged Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men to start out after David tonight.
I will catch up to him while he is weary and discouraged. He and his troops will panic, and everyone will run away. Then I will kill only the king,
and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride returns to her husband. After all, it is only this man's life that you seek. Then all the people will remain unharmed and peaceful."
This plan seemed good to Absalom and to all the other leaders of Israel.

For my people and I have been sold to those who would kill, slaughter, and annihilate us. If we had only been sold as slaves, I could remain quiet, for that would have been a matter too trivial to warrant disturbing the king."
"Who would do such a thing?" King Xerxes demanded. "Who would dare touch you?"
Esther replied, "This wicked Haman is our enemy." Haman grew pale with fright before the king and queen.

Mordecai told him the whole story and told him how much money Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews.
Mordecai gave Hathach a copy of the decree issued in Susa that called for the death of all Jews, and he asked Hathach to show it to Esther. He also asked Hathach to explain it to her and to urge her to go to the king to beg for mercy and plead for her people.
So Hathach returned to Esther with Mordecai's message.
Then Esther told Hathach to go back and relay this message to Mordecai:
"The whole world knows that anyone who appears before the king in his inner court without being invited is doomed to die unless the king holds out his gold scepter. And the king has not called for me to come to him in more than a month."

The next morning a group of Jews got together and bound themselves with an oath to neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

They asked Festus as a favor to transfer Paul to Jerusalem. (Their plan was to waylay and kill him.)

What misery is mine! I feel like the fruit picker after the harvest who can find nothing to eat. Not a cluster of grapes or a single fig can be found to satisfy my hunger.
The godly people have all disappeared; not one fair-minded person is left on the earth. They are all murderers, even setting traps for their own brothers.

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