Psalms 86:14

³For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.

⁴Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on the LORD?

¹Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. ²They bound him, led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

³Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. ⁴They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.

¹A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

¹³Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account”?

¹¹He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

¹¹Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

⁴The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

¹After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him. ²Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”

³Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.” ⁴Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!” ⁵It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him. ⁶Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

⁷At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hebron. ⁸For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If the LORD shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.’”

⁹The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose and went to Hebron.

¹⁰But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’”

¹¹Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything. ¹²Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.