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Proverbs 24:15
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Proverbs 24:15
15Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
15Lay not waite, (O wicked man) against the dwelling of the righteous: spoile not his resting place.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 24:15
Place or set down; also rested or remained in a recumbent position, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To remain in expectation or readiness; to attend or serve; as a noun, an ambush or concealed watch.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Just, right, or conforming to God's law and judgment; equitable or upright; as a noun, a person characterized as righteous.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Plunder or goods taken by force, especially in war; also to rob, corrupt, ruin, or lay waste.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Ceasing to move or act; ceasing to be moved or agitated; lying; leaning; standing; depending or relying.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A location, position, room, occasion, office, or passage, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study24But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
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Open the full verse study19But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
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Open the full verse study18And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
19And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
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Open the full verse study20Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hand.
21And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the Lord; for ye have compassion on me.
22Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.
23See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
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Open the full verse study11¶ And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
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Open the full verse study18And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
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Open the full verse study4And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
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Open the full verse study5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
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Open the full verse study16And when Paul’s sister’s son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.
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Open the full verse study3And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
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Open the full verse study11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
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Open the full verse study28Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
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Open the full verse study32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
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Open the full verse study6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
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Open the full verse study3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord.
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Open the full verse study8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
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