15 Bible Verses about Attempting To Kill Specific People

And the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too,

And although he wished to kill John, he feared the people, for they considered John a prophet.

So Herodias hated him, and wished to put him to death;

When they heard this they were infuriated, and were minded to kill the apostles;

And when many days were fulfilled the Jews made a plot to kill Saul; but information of their plot was given Saul, and although they kept watch day and night on the gates, in order to make away with him,

He also used to hold conversations and debates with the Grecian Jews, but they kept trying to kill him.

While they were attempting to kill him, news came to the tribune commander of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

"Now do you and the Sanhedrin ask the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you would judge his case more exactly; and we are ready to kill him, before he comes near the place."

And now a party of Jews came down form Antioch and Iconium, and after persuading the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

When day dawned the Jews made a conspiracy, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

They went to the high priests and elders, and said to them. "We have bound ourselves by a solemn oath to eat nothing until we have killed Paul.

"Now do not let them persuade, for more than forty men are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse, not to eat nor drink until they have killed him; even now they are all ready, awaiting your consent."

"For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

They urged him, asking it as a favor, to send for him to Jerusalem. They meant to lay in wait for him and kill him on the way.

Now the soldiers were planning to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim off and so escape.