Acts 16:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

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  • Job 33:11 : 11 He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.’
  • Job 13:27 : 27 And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.
  • Jer 29:26 : 26 “The LORD has made you priest in place of Jehoiada. He has put you in charge in the LORD’s temple of controlling any lunatic who pretends to be a prophet. And it is your duty to put any such person in the stocks with an iron collar around his neck.
  • Jer 37:15-16 : 15 The officials were very angry at Jeremiah. They had him flogged and put in prison in the house of Jonathan, the royal secretary, which they had converted into a place for confining prisoners. 16 So Jeremiah was put in prison in a cell in the dungeon in Jonathan’s house. He was kept there for a long time.
  • Jer 38:26 : 26 If they do this, tell them,‘I was pleading with the king not to send me back to die in the dungeon of Jonathan’s house.’”
  • Lam 3:53-55 : 53 They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me. 54 The waters closed over my head; I thought I was about to die. 55 ק(Qof) I have called on your name, O LORD, from the deepest pit.
  • Ps 105:18 : 18 The shackles hurt his feet; his neck was placed in an iron collar,
  • Jer 20:2-3 : 2 When he heard Jeremiah’s prophecy, he had the prophet flogged. Then he put him in the stocks which were at the Upper Gate of Benjamin in the LORD’s temple. 3 But the next day Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. When he did, Jeremiah said to him,“The LORD’s name for you is not‘Pashhur’ but‘Terror is Everywhere.’
  • 1 Kgs 22:27 : 27 Say,‘This is what the king says,“Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water until I safely return.”’”
  • 2 Chr 16:10 : 10 Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.

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    25About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the rest of the prisoners were listening to them.

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    28But Paul called out loudly,“Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!”

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