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Psalms 54:3
For strangers are attacking me; violent people are trying to kill me. They care nothing for God. Interlude
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Psalms 119:85
These arrogant people who hate your instructions have dug deep pits to trap me.
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Psalms 36:11
Don’t let the proud trample me or the wicked push me around.
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Psalms 10:11
The wicked think,“ God isn’t watching us! He has closed his eyes and won’t even see what we do!”
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2 Samuel 16 20-2 Samuel 17 1
Then Absalom turned to Ahithophel and asked him,“ What should I do next?”Ahithophel told him,“ Go and sleep with your father’s concubines, for he has left them here to look after the palace. Then all Israel will know that you have insulted your father beyond hope of reconciliation, and they will throw their support to you.”So they set up a tent on the palace roof where everyone could see it, and Absalom went in and had sex with his father’s concubines.Absalom followed Ahithophel’s advice, just as David had done. For every word Ahithophel spoke seemed as wise as though it had come directly from the mouth of God.Now Ahithophel urged Absalom,“ Let me choose 12,000 men to start out after David tonight.
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Psalms 10:13
Why do the wicked get away with despising God? They think,“ God will never call us to account.”
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Psalms 36:1
Sin whispers to the wicked, deep within their hearts. They have no fear of God at all.
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2 Samuel 17 14
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said,“ Hushai’s advice is better than Ahithophel’s.” For the Lord had determined to defeat the counsel of Ahithophel, which really was the better plan, so that he could bring disaster on Absalom!
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Psalms 14:4
Will those who do evil never learn? They eat up my people like bread and wouldn’t think of praying to the Lord.
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Psalms 119:51
The proud hold me in utter contempt, but I do not turn away from your instructions.
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Ezekiel 8:12
Then the Lord said to me,“ Son of man, have you seen what the leaders of Israel are doing with their idols in dark rooms? They are saying,‘ The Lord doesn’t see us; he has deserted our land!’”
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Matthew 26:3-4
At that same time the leading priests and elders were meeting at the residence of Caiaphas, the high priest,plotting how to capture Jesus secretly and kill him.
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2 Samuel 15 1-2 Samuel 15 12
After this, Absalom bought a chariot and horses, and he hired fifty bodyguards to run ahead of him.He got up early every morning and went out to the gate of the city. When people brought a case to the king for judgment, Absalom would ask where in Israel they were from, and they would tell him their tribe.Then Absalom would say,“ You’ve really got a strong case here! It’s too bad the king doesn’t have anyone to hear it.I wish I were the judge. Then everyone could bring their cases to me for judgment, and I would give them justice!”When people tried to bow before him, Absalom wouldn’t let them. Instead, he took them by the hand and kissed them.Absalom did this with everyone who came to the king for judgment, and so he stole the hearts of all the people of Israel.After four years, Absalom said to the king,“ Let me go to Hebron to offer a sacrifice to the Lord and fulfill a vow I made to him.For while your servant was at Geshur in Aram, I promised to sacrifice to the Lord in Hebron if he would bring me back to Jerusalem.”“ All right,” the king told him.“ Go and fulfill your vow.” So Absalom went to Hebron.But while he was there, he sent secret messengers to all the tribes of Israel to stir up a rebellion against the king.“ As soon as you hear the ram’s horn,” his message read,“ you are to say,‘ Absalom has been crowned king in Hebron.’”He took 200 men from Jerusalem with him as guests, but they knew nothing of his intentions.While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel, one of David’s counselors who lived in Giloh. Soon many others also joined Absalom, and the conspiracy gained momentum.
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Matthew 27:1-2
Very early in the morning the leading priests and the elders of the people met again to lay plans for putting Jesus to death.Then they bound him, led him away, and took him to Pilate, the Roman governor.
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Acts 4:27-28
“ In fact, this has happened here in this very city! For Herod Antipas, Pontius Pilate the governor, the Gentiles, and the people of Israel were all united against Jesus, your holy servant, whom you anointed.But everything they did was determined beforehand according to your will.
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Psalms 10:4
The wicked are too proud to seek God. They seem to think that God is dead.
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Psalms 140:5
The proud have set a trap to catch me; they have stretched out a net; they have placed traps all along the way. Interlude
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Ezekiel 9:9
Then he said to me,“ The sins of the people of Israel and Judah are very, very great. The entire land is full of murder; the city is filled with injustice. They are saying,‘ The Lord doesn’t see it! The Lord has abandoned the land!’
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Psalms 119:69
Arrogant people smear me with lies, but in truth I obey your commandments with all my heart.
