Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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Bible References

Certain

Acts 23:21
Don’t let them persuade you, because there are more than 40 of them arranging to ambush him, men who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they kill him. Now they are ready, waiting for a commitment from you.”
Acts 25:3
asking him to do them a favor against Paul, that he might summon him to Jerusalem. They were preparing an ambush along the road to kill him.
Psalm 2:1
Why do the nations rebel
and the peoples plot in vain?
Psalm 64:2
Hide me from the scheming of wicked people,
from the mob of evildoers,
Isaiah 8:9
Band together, peoples, and be broken;
pay attention, all you distant lands;
prepare for war, and be broken;
prepare for war, and be broken.
Jeremiah 11:19
for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter.
I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;
let’s cut him off from the land of the living
so that his name will no longer be remembered.”
Matthew 26:4
and they conspired to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill Him.

Bound

1 Kings 19:2
So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods punish me and do so severely if I don’t make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow!”
2 Kings 6:31
He announced, “May God punish me and do so severely if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.”
Matthew 27:25
All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
Mark 6:23
So he swore oaths to her: “Whatever you ask me I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

Under a curse

Leviticus 27:29
No person who has been set apart for destruction is to be ransomed; he must be put to death.
Joshua 6:26
At that time Joshua imposed this curse:

The man who undertakes
the rebuilding of this city, Jericho,
is cursed before the Lord.
He will lay its foundation
at the cost of his firstborn;
he will set up its gates
at the cost of his youngest.
Joshua 7:1
The Israelites, however, were unfaithful regarding the things set apart for destruction. Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart, and the Lord’s anger burned against the Israelites.
Nehemiah 10:29
join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the law of God given through God’s servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commands, ordinances, and statutes of Yahweh our Lord.
Matthew 26:74
Then he started to curse and to swear with an oath, “I do not know the man!” Immediately a rooster crowed,
Galatians 3:13
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.

General references

Jeremiah 11:9
The Lord said to me, “A conspiracy has been discovered among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

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