Nahum 1:9
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9 Why do you plot against the Lord?
He will make an end;
no adversary will rise up twice.(A)
Psalm 21:11
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11 If they plan evil against you,
if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.(A)
Proverbs 21:30
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30 No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
can avail against the Lord.(A)
Psalm 33:10
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10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.(A)
2 Corinthians 10:5
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5 and every proud obstacle raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ.(A)
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Nahum 1:11
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11 From you one has gone out
who plots evil against the Lord,
one who counsels wickedness.(A)
Psalm 2:1-4
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Psalm 2
God’s Promise to His Anointed
1 Why do the nations conspire
and the peoples plot in vain?(A)
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and his anointed, saying,(B)
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord has them in derision.(C)
Ezekiel 38:10-11
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10 Thus says the Lord God: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme.(A) 11 You will say, “I will go up against the land of unwalled villages; I will fall upon the quiet people who live in safety, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates,(B)
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Acts 4:25-28
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25 it is you who said by the Holy Spirit through our ancestor David, your servant:[a]
‘Why did the gentiles rage
and the peoples imagine vain things?(A)
26 The kings of the earth took their stand,
and the rulers have gathered together
against the Lord and against his Messiah.’[b](B)
27 “For in this city, in fact, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the gentiles and the peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant[c] Jesus, whom you anointed,(C) 28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
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Isaiah 8:9-10
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9 Take notice,[a] you peoples, and be dismayed;
listen, all you far countries;
gird yourselves and be dismayed![b]
10 Take counsel together, but it shall be brought to naught;
speak a word, but it will not stand,
for God is with us.”(A)
1 Samuel 26:8
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8 Abishai said to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand today; now, therefore, let me pin him to the ground with one stroke of the spear; I will not strike him twice.”
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1 Samuel 3:12
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12 On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.(A)
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2 Samuel 20:10
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10 But Amasa did not notice the sword in Joab’s hand; Joab struck him in the belly so that his entrails poured out on the ground, and he died. He did not strike a second blow.
Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.(A)
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