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

But follow not their minds: for there lie in wait for him of them, more than forty men, which have bound themselves with a vow, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now are they ready, and look for thy promise."

and desired favour against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, and laid wait for him in the way to kill him.

W hy did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things?

Hide me from the gathering together of the froward, and from the insurrection of wicked doers,

Go together ye people, and gather you, hearken to all ye of far countries. Muster you, and you shall be broken down: prepare you to battle and you shall be torn in pieces.

But I, as a meek lamb, was carried away to be slain: not knowing, that they had devised such a counsel against me saying, "We will destroy his meat with wood, and drive him out of the land of the living: that his name shall never be thought upon."

and held a counsel, how they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.

Bound

Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, "So do God to me, and so thereto, except I make thy soul like one of theirs by tomorrow this time."

Then he said, "God do so and so to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat tarry on him this day!"

Then answered all the people, and said, "His blood be on us, and on our children."

And he sware unto her, "Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, even unto the one half of my kingdom."

Under a curse

No dedicated thing therefore that is dedicated of man, may be redeemed, but must needs die.

And Joshua cursed at that time, saying, "Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: so that he lay the foundation with the death of his eldest son, and with the death of his youngest set up the gates."

But yet the children of Israel trespassed in the excommunicate things: for Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah of the tribe of Judah, took of the excommunicate things. And the wrath of the LORD waxed hot against the children of Israel.

and their lords that had rule of them, received it for their brethren. And they came to sware, and to bind themselves with an oath to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, that they would observe and do according unto all the commandments, judgments, and statutes of the LORD our God:

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

But Christ hath delivered us from the curse of the law, and was made accursed for us - for it is written, "Cursed is everyone that hangeth on tree" -

General references

And the LORD said unto me, "It is found out, that whole Israel and all these citizens of Jerusalem are gone back.