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

Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know 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.

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

Bound

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!"

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

All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"

He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom."

Under a curse

"'No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, "Cursed is the man before Yahweh, who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up its gates."

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh's anger burned against the children of Israel.

they joined with their brothers, 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 Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

Then he began to curse and to swear, "I don't know the man!" Immediately the rooster crowed.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"

General references

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