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

Do not thou then be persuaded by them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have put themselves under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they kill him; and now they are ready waiting the promise from thee.

asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.

Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and why do the peoples meditate a vain thing?

Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, from the tumultuous crowd of the workers of iniquity,

Rage, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth: Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces!

And I was like a tame lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety and kill him;

Bound

And Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah saying, So do the gods to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time!

And he said, God do so, and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall remain on him this day!

And all the people answering said, His blood be on us and on our children.

And he swore to her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask me I will give thee, to half of my kingdom.

Under a curse

Nothing devoted, which shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed: it shall certainly be put to death.

And Joshua swore at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before Jehovah who shall rise up and build this city Jericho! In his first-born shall he lay its foundation, and in his youngest son shall he set up its gates.

But the children of Israel committed unfaithfulness in that which had been brought under the curse: Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing; and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the children of Israel.

joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in the law of God, which had been given by Moses the servant of God, and to keep and do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

Then he began to curse and to swear, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.

Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed is every one hanged upon a tree,)

General references

And Jehovah said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.