Acts 9:24
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.”
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“but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.”
King James Version · Public Domain“but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and their counsel against <FI>him<Fi> was known to Saul; they were also watching the gates both day and night, that they may kill him,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 9:24 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 16:2When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”
- Psalms 21:11Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
- Psalms 37:32Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,
- Proverbs 24:15Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.
- Acts 9:29He talked and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they tried to kill him.
- Acts 14:5But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,
- Acts 17:10As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
- Acts 20:3where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
- Acts 20:19I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.
- Acts 23:12When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
- Acts 23:30When I was informed that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also instructed his accusers to present their case against him before you.
- Acts 25:3to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
- Acts 25:11If, however, I am guilty of anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is no truth to their accusations against me, no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
- 2 Corinthians 11:32In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.
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