Acts 16:24
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.”
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“On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.”
King James Version · Public Domain“who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 16:24 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 22:27and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
- 2 Chronicles 16:10Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
- Job 13:27You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
- Job 33:11He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
- Psalms 105:18They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
- Jeremiah 20:2he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 29:26‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.
- Jeremiah 37:15The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
- Jeremiah 38:26then tell them, ‘I was presenting to the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”
- Lamentations 3:53They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).