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Amalikia gebruik verraad, moord en gekonkel om koning te word van die Lamaniete—Die Nefitiese afvalliges is goddeloser en wreder as die Lamaniete.
Amalickiah uses treachery, murder, and intrigue to become king of the Lamanites—The Nephite dissenters are more wicked and ferocious than the Lamanites.

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In daardie omstandighede moes hy seker baie keer nee sê, want hy was omring deur heidene, en die koninklike hof was ongetwyfeld vol onsedelikheid, leuens, omkopery, politieke gekonkel en ander verdorwe gebruike.
Under those circumstances he must have had to say no many times, for he was surrounded by pagan people, and the royal court no doubt was full of immorality, lying, bribery, political intrigue, and other corrupt practices.

Ons wil dus beslis nooit konkel om uit een huwelik te kom terwyl ons hart ’n ander huwelik beplan nie.—Jer.
Surely, then, we would never scheme to get out of one marriage while our heart is planning on another marriage. —Jer.

Gedurende die dertiger- en veertigerjare het die groot hoer van Katolieke Aksie en politieke gekonkel gebruik gemaak om Jehovah se getroue Getuies te vervolg en in die ban te doen.
During the 1930’s and 1940’s, the great harlot used Catholic Action and political intrigue to persecute and ban Jehovah’s faithful witnesses.

Dit was deur die politieke gekonkel van ’n pouslike ridder wat deur die vorige Duitse kanselier, Kurt von Schleicher, beskryf is as “die soort verraaier in vergelyking met wie Judas Iskariot ’n heilige is”.
It was through the political intrigue of a papal knight whom the previous German chancellor, Kurt von Schleicher, described as “the kind of traitor next to whom Judas Iscariot is a saint.”

Menseregerings het gekonkel en die onbeskaamdste en uitdagendste sameswering van alle tye teen goddelike heerskappy gevorm.
Human governments have schemed to form the most brazen and defiant conspiracy against divine rule that has ever existed.

Daar is beslis geen gekonkel met die ooreenkomste nie, want die skrywers stem dikwels per toeval saam.
There is an obvious lack of design in the coincidences, the writers often agreeing unintentionally.

Wanneer ’n groep leerlinge saam aan ’n projek werk, is dit moeilik om te bepaal of hulle eerlik te werk gaan en of hulle konkel.
For example, when teams of students work together on a project, the line between fair collaboration and dishonest collusion may not be so clear.

Hulle gekonkel is so suksesvol dat dit selfs ‘die inbeeldinge van hulle hart oortref’.
(Proverbs 23:20) So successful is their scheming that they even ‘surpass the imaginations of their hearts.’

Die koninkryk gaan oor van een na die ander deur oorerwing, gekonkel, en moord—Emer het die Seun van Regverdigheid gesien—Baie profete roep tot bekering—‘n Hongersnood en giftige slange teister die volk.
The kingdom passes from one to another by descent, intrigue, and murder—Emer saw the Son of Righteousness—Many prophets cry repentance—A famine and poisonous serpents plague the people.

Hy het toegelaat dat Isebel, sy heidense vrou, die dood van Nabot, sy buurman, bekonkel, sodat hy Nabot se wingerd in die hande kon kry (1 Konings 21:1-19).
He allowed Jezebel, his pagan wife, to plot the death of Naboth, his neighbor, so that he could get his hands on Naboth’s vineyard.

Een dag mis ek hom; die volgende dag onthou ek al die gekonkel en leuens en die vernedering.”
One day I miss him; the next day I remember all the scheming and lying and humiliation.”

Jehovah is bewus van enige gekonkel agter so ’n skeiding, ongeag hoe ’n mens dit probeer wegsteek.
Jehovah is aware of any scheming behind a separation, no matter how one may try to hide it.

Dit was vir daardie geestelikes ’n bitter pil om te sluk, des te meer omdat die Christenbedienaars vir wie hulle met ’n gekonkel in die gevangenis laat gooi het, weer vry was en later heeltemal vrygespreek is.
It was a bitter pill for those clergymen to swallow, the more so since the Christian ministers whom they had schemed to put in prison were free again, later to be fully exonerated.

“Die Eerste Minister was onbewus van hierdie gekonkel; daarom het hy die hoofimmigrasiebeampte onmiddellik opdrag gegee om vir hom die lêer oor Jehovah se Getuies te bring.
“The prime minister had been unaware of this scheming; hence, he immediately ordered the chief immigration officer to bring him the file on Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Amalikia gebruik verraad, moord en gekonkel om koning te word van die Lamaniete—Die Nefitiese afvalliges is goddeloser en wreder as die Lamaniete.
Amalickiah uses treachery, murder, and intrigue to become king of the Lamanites—The Nephite dissenters are more wicked and ferocious than the Lamanites.