Quotes about Ambush
Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 51:12
He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
- Lamentations 3:10
Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.
- Lamentations 4:19
Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.
- Hosea 6:9
So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
- Hosea 13:7
Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”
- Acts 23:21
to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
- Acts 25:3
Our God loves triumphing over what looks impossible; therefore, he calls an ambush without any means of escape "an opportunity"!
- Lisa Bevere
Pantagruel said to his men, "Gentlemen, I have made this prisoner believe that we will not assault them till to-morrow at noon, but my intention is that we charge them about the hour of the first sleep.
- Francois Rabelais
It is foolish to spread a net where any bird can see it, but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives. Proverbs 1:17—18
- Beth Moore
The spider looks for the merchant who doesn't advertise so he can spin a web across his door and lead a life of undisturbed peace.
- Mark Twain
The robbers jumped into the road and tackled the traveler.
- Frank Peretti