Proverbs 1:12
Let's bury them alive; let's put them in the grave while they're still healthy!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
In Context
13We'll take from them all kinds of valuable things and fill our homes with the stuff we steal!
Cross References
Numbers 26:10The earth opened up and swallowed them down, along with Korah. His followers died when the fire burned up 250 men. What happened to them was a warning to the Israelites.
Psalms 28:1Lord, my rock, I'm calling out to you. Please listen to me! For if you don't respond, I'll be like those who go down into the grave.
Psalms 56:1God, please be gracious to me, for people are persecuting me; my attackers fight against me all day long.
Psalms 124:3They would have swallowed us alive when their anger raged against us.
Jeremiah 51:34Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon chewed me up and sucked me dry, making me as empty as a jar with nothing in it. He swallowed me down as if he were some monster, filling himself with the tastiest parts of me and throwing the rest away.
Lamentations 2:16All your enemies open their mouths at you, hissing and gnashing their teeth, “We've swallowed her up! This is the day we've been waiting for. Now it's here and we've seen it happen!”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:11-20
Parental Admonitions. 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to… Read the whole commentary →