Acts 23:12

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Summary

And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

Certain

Matthew 26:4

Bound

Under a curse

General references

Jeremiah 11:9

Bible References

Certain

So do not listen to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they slay him; and now they are ready and waiting for the promise from you.”

requesting a concession against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem (at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way).

Why are the nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?

Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers,
From the tumult of those who do iniquity,

“Be broken, O peoples, and be

shattered;

And give ear, all remote places of the earth.
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered;
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;
And I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
And let us cut him off from the land of the living,
That his name be remembered no more.”

and they plotted together to seize Jesus by stealth and kill Him.

Bound

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”

Then he said, “May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today.”

And all the people said, “His blood shall be on us and on our children!”

And he swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give it to you; up to half of my kingdom.”

Under a curse

No one who may have been set apart among men shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

Then Joshua made them take an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed before the Lord is the man who rises up and builds this city Jericho; with the loss of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he shall set up its gates.”

But the sons of Israel acted unfaithfully in regard to the things under the ban, for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, took some of the things under the ban, therefore the anger of the Lord burned against the sons of Israel.

are joining with their kinsmen, their nobles, and are

taking on themselves a curse and an oath to walk in God’s law, which was given through Moses, God’s servant, and to keep and to observe all the commandments of God our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes;

Then he began to curse and swear, “I do not know the man!” And immediately a rooster crowed.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on

tree”—

General references

Then the Lord said to me, “A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.