Quotes about Plot
Where are the unwise, who are not only impatient but plot revenge day and night? But why? Because they do not see how great is the damage of those who have not kept the law of the Lord, therefore they have no sympathy with them but also themselves depart from the law of God through anger and impatience.
— Martin Luther
Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don't know the characters and can't make sense of the plot.
— Nancy Pearcey
And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
— Genesis 33:19
“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”
— Genesis 37:20
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And they agreed.
— Genesis 37:27
And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.
— Joshua 24:32
Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.
— Judges 9:32
When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”
— Judges 16:2
“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”
— 1 Samuel 18:21
Then Absalom said, “Summon Hushai the Archite as well, and let us hear what he too has to say.”
— 2 Samuel 17:5
And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,
— 2 Samuel 21:5
Then they sent word to Jezebel: “Naboth has been stoned to death.”
— 1 Kings 21:14