13 For I (A)hear the whispering of many—
    terror on every side!—
(B)as they scheme together against me,
    as they plot to take my life.

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10 (A)For I hear many whispering.
    (B)Terror is on every side!
“Denounce him! (C)Let us denounce him!”
    say all my (D)close friends,
    (E)watching for (F)my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
    then (G)we can overcome him
    and take our revenge on him.”

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Jesus Delivered to Pilate

27 (A)When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people (B)took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.

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22 You summoned as if to (A)a festival day
    (B)my terrors on every side,
(C)and on the day of the anger of the Lord
    no one escaped or survived;
(D)those whom I held and raised
    my enemy destroyed.

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33 (A)But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew (B)that his father was determined to put David to death.

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(A)Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in (B)the palace of the high priest, whose name was (C)Caiaphas, (D)and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

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Hushai Saves David

17 Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight. I will come upon him while he is (A)weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. (B)I will strike down only the king, and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride comes home to her husband. You seek the life of only one man,[a] and all the people will be at peace.” And the advice seemed right in the eyes of Absalom and all the elders of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 17:3 Septuagint; Hebrew back to you. Like the return of the whole is the man whom you seek

But they were urgent, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, (A)from Galilee even to this place.”

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Jesus Before Pilate

23 (A)Then the whole company of them arose and brought him before Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man (B)misleading our nation and (C)forbidding us to give tribute to (D)Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, (E)a king.”

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59 Now the chief priests and the whole council[a] (A)were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,

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  1. Matthew 26:59 Greek Sanhedrin

19 But I was (A)like a gentle lamb
    led to the slaughter.
I did not know (B)it was against me
    they devised schemes, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
    (C)let us cut him off from (D)the land of the living,
    that his name be remembered no more.”

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25 Go not out into the field,
    nor walk on the road,
for the enemy has a sword;
    (A)terror is on every side.

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Whoever slanders his neighbor (A)secretly
    I will (B)destroy.
Whoever has a (C)haughty look and an (D)arrogant heart
    I will not endure.

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My soul is in the midst of (A)lions;
    I lie down amid fiery beasts—
the children of man, whose (B)teeth are spears and arrows,
    whose (C)tongues are sharp swords.

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In God I Trust

To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A (A)Miktam[a] of David, when the (B)Philistines seized him in Gath.

56 (C)Be gracious to me, O God, for man (D)tramples on me;
    all day long an attacker oppresses me;
my enemies trample on me all day long,
    for many attack me proudly.
When I am afraid,
    I (E)put my trust in you.

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  1. Psalm 56:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

10 Day and night they go around it
    on its walls,
and (A)iniquity and trouble are within it;

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And David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Behold, David seeks your harm’?

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19 (A)Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of (B)Jeshimon? 20 Now come down, O king, according to all your heart's desire to come down, (C)and our part shall be to surrender him into the king's hand.”

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that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me (A)when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you (B)is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, (C)to lie in wait, as at this day.” Then answered (D)Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, “I saw the son of Jesse (E)coming to Nob, to (F)Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, 10 (G)and he inquired of the Lord for him and (H)gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

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10 (A)And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.

11 (B)Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” 12 (C)So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped. 13 Michal took (D)an image[a] and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.” 15 Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.” 16 And when the messengers came in, behold, (E)the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head. 17 Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me thus and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go. (F)Why should I kill you?’”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 19:13 Or a household god

The next day, when (A)Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord does not call your name (B)Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side. For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will make you (C)a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall strike them down with the sword.

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