a snare

Exodus 10:7
Pharaoh's officials asked him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is in ruins?"

Psalm 7:14-16
Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood. . . .

Psalm 38:12
Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, and plot deceit all day long.

Proverbs 26:24-26
A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart. . . .

Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Jeremiah 5:26
For My people are among wicked men. They watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap; they catch men.

Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.

the hand

1 Samuel 18:17
Then Saul said to David, "Here is my oldest daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD's battles." But Saul was thinking, "I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him."

1 Samuel 19:11, 12
Then Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David's wife Michal warned him, "If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!" . . .

this day

1 Samuel 18:26
When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the king's son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived,