Acts 16:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he, having such orders, put them into the inner prison with chains on their feet.

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  • Job 33:11 : 11 He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.
  • Job 13:27 : 27 And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
  • Jer 29:26 : 26 The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, to be an overseer in the house of the Lord for every man who is off his head and is acting as a prophet, to put such men in prison and in chains.
  • Jer 37:15-16 : 15 And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison. 16 So Jeremiah came into the hole of the prison, under the arches, and was there for a long time.
  • Jer 38:26 : 26 Then you are to say to them, I made my request to the king, that he would not send me back to my death in Jonathan's house.
  • Lam 3:53-55 : 53 They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones. 54 Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off. 55 I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.
  • Ps 105:18 : 18 His feet were fixed in chains; his neck was put in iron bands;
  • Jer 20:2-3 : 2 And Pashhur gave blows to Jeremiah and had his feet chained in a framework of wood in the higher doorway of Benjamin, which was in the house of the Lord. 3 Then on the day after, Pashhur let Jeremiah loose. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has given you the name of Magor-missabib (Cause-of-fear-on-every-side), not Pashhur.
  • 1 Kgs 22:27 : 27 And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.
  • 2 Chr 16:10 : 10 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.

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