If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
The verse pictures wrongdoers pressing another person with an invitation to come with them and share in their deed. What they propose is to hide themselves and lie in wait in secret in order to shed blood. Their intended victims are the innocent, to be assaulted and killed without cause.
This enticement reveals the working method of those who follow Satan, for they are not content to do wrong alone but labor to draw others into wrongdoing with them. The appeal to join them is itself part of their evil course.
Set within Proverbs 1:10-15, this warning teaches that such an invitation must be met with confrontation and refusal rather than compliance. Evil of this kind is to be resisted and stood against, not followed.
The verse pictures wrongdoers pressing another person with an invitation to come with them and share in their deed. What they propose is to hide themselves and lie in wait in secret in order to shed blood. Their intended victims are the innocent, to be assaulted and killed without cause.
This enticement reveals the working method of those who follow Satan, for they are not content to do wrong alone but labor to draw others into wrongdoing with them. The appeal to join them is itself part of their evil course.
Set within Proverbs 1:10-15, this warning teaches that such an invitation must be met with confrontation and refusal rather than compliance. Evil of this kind is to be resisted and stood against, not followed.