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.

Bible References

Certain

Acts 23:21
But do not thou consent to them: for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves under an anathema, neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now they are in readiness, waiting only to procure the promise from thee.
Acts 25:3
begging it as a favour from him, that he would send him back to Jerusalem, lying in wait for him to kill him on the road.
Matthew 26:4
And they consulted together, how they might seize Jesus by guile, and put him to death.

Bound

Matthew 27:25
Then all the people answering said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Mark 6:23
And he swore unto her, That whatsoever thou shalt ask, I will give thee, even to the half of my kingdom.

Under a curse

Matthew 26:74
Then began he to utter the bitterest curses, and to swear, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
Galatians 3:13
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, "Cursed is every one who is hanged on a tree:"