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 do not thou yield to them: for there are of them who lie in wait for him more than forty men, who have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now they are ready, looking for a promise from thee.

And desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices 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 may be no more remembered.

And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

Bound

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

Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

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

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

Under a curse

None devoted, which shall be devoted by men, shall be redeemed: but shall surely be put to death.

And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay its foundation in his first-born, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for 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 the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.

They united with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

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

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Accursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

General references

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