Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
An oath
Bible References
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Acts 23:12
When day dawned the Jews made a conspiracy, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Acts 9:23
And when many days were fulfilled the Jews made a plot to kill Saul;
Acts 14:5
And when both the Gentiles and the Jews with their ruler made a hostile move to maltreat and to stone them,
Acts 20:19
"serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and amid trials that befell me through the plots of the Jews.
Acts 25:3
They urged him, asking it as a favor, to send for him to Jerusalem. They meant to lay in wait for him and kill him on the way.
2 Corinthians 11:26
My journeys have been many; in perils of rivers, in perils of bandits; in perils from my countrymen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers;
An oath
Acts 23:14
They went to the high priests and elders, and said to them. "We have bound ourselves by a solemn oath to eat nothing until we have killed Paul.
Romans 9:3
For I was on the point of praying to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.