They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_2 1:10
Let us deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply [further], and if war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country."
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_17 3:6-9
6
And when he learned of Mordecai's ethnic identity, Haman decided not to do away with Mordecai alone. He set out to destroy all of Mordecai's people, the Jews, throughout Ahasuerus' kingdom.
7
In the first month, the month of Nisan, in King Ahasuerus' twelfth year, Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman for each day in each month, and it fell on the twelfth month, the month Adar.
8
Then Haman informed King Ahasuerus, "There is one ethnic group, scattered throughout the peoples in every province of your kingdom, yet living in isolation. Their laws are different from everyone else's, so that they defy the king's laws. It is not in the king's best interest to tolerate them.
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If the king approves, let an order be drawn up authorizing their destruction, and I will pay 375 tons of silver to the accountants for deposit in the royal treasury."
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 1:12
Let's swallow them alive, like Sheol, still healthy as they go down to the Pit.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 11:19
for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter. I didn't know that they had devised plots against me: "Let's destroy the tree with its fruit; let's cut him off from the land of the living so that his name will no longer be remembered."
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 31:36
If this fixed order departs from My presence-- [this is] the LORD's declaration-- then also Israel's descendants will cease to be a nation before Me forever.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_27 7:25
He will speak words against the Most High and oppress the holy ones of the Most High. He will intend to change religious festivals and laws, and the holy ones will be handed over to him for a time, times, and half a time.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_40 27:62-66
62
The next day, which followed the preparation day, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate
63
and said, "Sir, we remember that while this deceiver was still alive, He said, 'After three days I will rise again.'
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Therefore give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come, steal Him, and tell the people, 'He has been raised from the dead.' Then the last deception will be worse than the first."
65
"You have a guard [of soldiers]," Pilate told them. "Go and make it as secure as you know how."
66
Then they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting the guard.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_44 4:17
But so this does not spread any further among the people, let's threaten them against speaking to anyone in this name again."
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_44 9:1
Meanwhile Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_44 9:2
and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, either men or women, he might bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
