'Trap' in the Bible

know for certain that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out before you. They will become a snare and a trap for you, a scourge for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God has given you.

Therefore, I now say: I will not drive out these people before you. They will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a trap for you.”

“I’ll give her to him,” Saul thought. “She’ll be a trap for him, and the hand of the Philistines will be against him.” So Saul said to David a second time, “You can now be my son-in-law.”

But the woman said to him, “You surely know what Saul has done, how he has killed the mediums and spiritists in the land. Why are you setting a trap for me to get me killed?”

A trap catches him by the heel;a noose seizes him.

The rabble rise up at my right;they trap my feetand construct their siege ramp against me.

You lured us into a trap;You placed burdens on our backs.

Let their table set before them be a snare,and let it be a trap for their allies.

The wicked have set a trap for me,but I have not wandered from Your precepts.

The proud hide a trap with ropes for me;they spread a net along the pathand set snares for me.Selah

Protect me from the trap they have set for me,and from the snares of evildoers.

Although my spirit is weak within me,You know my way.Along this path I travelthey have hidden a trap for me.

Escape like a gazelle from a hunter,like a bird from a fowler’s trap.

He follows her impulsivelylike an ox going to the slaughter,like a deer bounding toward a trap

A fool’s mouth is his devastation,and his lips are a trap for his life.

It is a trap for anyone to dedicate something rashlyand later to reconsider his vows.

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

For man certainly does not know his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap, so people are trapped in an evil time as it suddenly falls on them.

He will be a sanctuary;but for the two houses of Israel,He will be a stone to stumble overand a rock to trip over,and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

those who, with their speech,accuse a person of wrongdoing,who set a trap at the gate for the mediator,and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.

for wicked men live among My people.They watch like fowlers lying in wait.They set a trap;they catch men.

He who flees from the panic will fall in the pit,and he who climbs from the pitwill be captured in the trap,for I will bring against Moabthe year of their punishment.This is the Lord’s declaration.

Babylon, I laid a trap for you, and you were caught,but you did not even know it.You were found and capturedbecause you fought against the Lord.

Does a bird land in a trap on the groundif there is no bait for it?Does a trap spring from the groundwhen it has caught nothing?

Everyone who has a treaty with youwill drive you to the border;everyone at peace with youwill deceive and conquer you.Those who eat your breadwill set a trap for you.He will be unaware of it.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to trap Him by what He said.

Then they sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to Him to trap Him by what He said.

they were lying in wait for Him to trap Him in something He said.

like a trap. For it will come on all who live on the face of the whole earth.

They asked this to trap Him, in order that they might have evidence to accuse Him.Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with His finger.

And David says:Let their feasting become a snare and a trap,a pitfall and a retribution to them.

Furthermore, he must have a good reputation among outsiders, so that he does not fall into disgrace and the Devil’s trap.

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Then they may come to their senses and escape the Devil’s trap, having been captured by him to do his will.