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12 The wicked plot against the righteous
    and gnash their teeth at them,(A)

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16 they impiously mocked more and more,[a]
    gnashing at me with their teeth.

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  1. 35.16 Cn Compare Gk: Heb like the profanest of mockers of a cake

Social Evils Denounced

Woe to those who devise wickedness
    and evil deeds[a] on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in their power.(A)

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  1. 2.1 Cn: Heb work evil

12 Because of wickedness, the host was given over to it together with the regular burnt offering;[a] it cast truth to the ground and kept prospering in what it did.

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  1. 8.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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

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16 And from that moment he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.

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and they conspired to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.(A)

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24 He shall grow strong in power,[a]
    shall cause fearful destruction,
    and shall succeed in what he does.
He shall destroy the powerful
    and the people of the holy ones.(A)

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  1. 8.24 Gk Theodotion: Heb power, but not with his power

But he thought it beneath him to kill[a] only Mordecai. So, having been told who Mordecai’s people were, Haman plotted to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.(A)

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  1. 3.6 Heb lay hands on

10 But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then shout: Absalom has become king at Hebron!” 11 Two hundred men from Jerusalem went with Absalom; they were invited guests, and they went in innocence, knowing nothing of the matter.(A) 12 While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for[a] Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh. The conspiracy grew in strength, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.(B)

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  1. 15.12 Or he sent

Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, “God has given[a] him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.” Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men. When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to the priest Abiathar, “Bring the ephod here.”(A)

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  1. 23.7 Gk Tg: Heb made a stranger of

21 Saul thought, “Let me give her to him that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time,[a] “You shall now be my son-in-law.”(A)

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  1. 18.21 Heb by two

32 The wicked watch for the righteous
    and seek to kill them.(A)

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