Proverbs 1:12
We will kill them [HYP] and get rid of them completely, just like people who are buried in graves are gone forever. While they are in good health, we will send them to the place where dead people are.
Translation for Translators
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
13And we will seize all the things that they own. We will fill our houses with these things!
Cross References
Numbers 26:10But the earth opened up and swallowed them and Korah. Yahweh also sent a fire that burned up 250 men who supported those three men. That was a warning to all the Israeli people that they should respect and obey the leaders whom Yahweh had appointed.
Psalms 28:1Yahweh, I call out to you; you are like an overhanging rock under which I can hide. Do not refuse to answer me, because if you are silent, I will soon be with those who are in their graves.
Psalms 56:1God, be merciful to me because men have harassed me; all day my enemies pursue me.
Psalms 124:3we would have all been killed [IDM] because they were very angry with us!
Jeremiah 51:34The army of Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon, has attacked and crushed us Israeli people, and we have no strength left. It is as though they have swallowed us like a great monster that filled its belly with all our tasty parts, and then has spit out what it did not like.
Lamentations 2:16Now all our enemies scoff [IDM] at you; they hiss/sneer at you and gnash their teeth to show that they hate you. They say, “We have destroyed them! This is what we longed/waited for, and now it has happened!”
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 →