Psalms 41:6 Cross References - ISV

⁶ The one who comes to visit me speaks lies; in his heart he thinks slanderous things about me and goes around spreading them.

¹ A Diversion is AttemptedWhen Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had completed the wall and that no break remained in it (even though by that time I hadn’t yet installed the doors in the gates), ² Sanballat and Geshem sent word to me, saying “Come, let’s meet together at Kephirim on the Ono Plain.” But they were just trying to do me harm.
³ So I sent messengers to them, replying “I am involved in a great endeavor, so I can’t leave. Why should the work stop while I leave it to come down to you?” ⁴ They sent me this message four times, and I answered them the same way.
⁵ Then Sanballat sent his assistant to me the fifth time. But this time the letter was sent unsealed, and ⁶ in it was written: It is reported among the nations—and Gashmu confirms this—that you and the Jews are planning a revolt, and that you’re rebuilding the wall in order to declare yourself king. According to these reports, ⁷ you also have appointed prophets to proclaim about you in Jerusalem, “There is a king in Judah!” Since these words are being reported to the king, come and let’s meet together.
⁸ I sent word back to him, “Nothing has happened as you’ve claimed. You’re making up these charges in your imagination.” ⁹ For they all were trying to make us afraid by saying, “Their hands will become tired from laboring, so the work won’t be completed.”
“Therefore, LORD, strengthen my hands!”
¹⁰ A Conspiracy Charge EmergesLater I visited Delaiah’s son Shemaiah, a grandson of Mehetabel, who was confined at home. He kept urging me, “Let’s meet together at the house of God, within the Temple, and take refuge there, because they’re coming to kill you. In fact, they’re coming at night to kill you!”
¹¹ But I asked him, “Should a man like me run? Should someone like me run into the Temple to save his life? I won’t go there!” ¹² I perceived that God had not sent him. Instead, Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him to pronounce this prophecy against me. ¹³ He had been hired to make me afraid so I would sin by doing what he suggested. Then they could create a slanderous report to use against me.
¹⁴ “Remember me, my God, and take note of what Tobiah and Sanballat are doing. Also take note of the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who intend to make me afraid.”

² Everyone speaks lies to his neighbor; they speak with flattering lips and hidden motives.

²⁴ Someone who hates hides behind his words, harboring deceit within himself. ²⁵ Though he speaks graciously, don’t believe him, for there are seven detestable things in his heart. ²⁶ Though malice disguises itself with deception, its evil will be exposed publicly.

¹⁰ Indeed, I hear many people whispering, “Terror on every side. Denounce him, let’s denounce him!” All my close friends watch my steps and say, “Perhaps he will be deceived, and we can prevail against him and take vengeance on him.”

²⁷ Now as for the two kings, their intentions will be evil, and they’ll promote deception at their dinner table, but none of this will succeed, because the end won’t have come yet.

⁵ Don’t trust your friends, don’t confide in a companion, watch what you say to your wife. ⁶ The son disrespects his father, the daughter rebels against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man’s enemies are the people of his own house.
⁷ Micah Looks to GodBut as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God who will deliver me. My God will hear me.

⁵³ As Jesus was leaving, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose him fiercely, interrogating him about many things. ⁵⁴ They watched him closely in an effort to trap him in something he might say.

²⁰ A Question about Paying Taxes
So they watched him closely and sent spies who pretended to be honest men in order to trap him in what he would say. They wanted to hand him over to the jurisdiction of the governor, ²¹ so they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you’re right in what you say and teach, and that you don’t favor any individual, but teach the way of God truthfully. ²² Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
²³ But he discerned their craftiness and responded to them,

²⁶ I have traveled extensively and have been endangered from rivers, robbers, my own people, and gentiles. I’ve also been in danger in the city, in the open country, at sea, from false brothers,