Acts 9:24

World English Bible (2000)

but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

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  • Acts 25:3 : 3 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
  • 2 Cor 11:32 : 32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.
  • Acts 20:3 : 3 When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
  • Acts 20:19 : 19 serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
  • Acts 23:12-21 : 12 When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. 13 There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy. 14 They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. 15 Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near." 16 But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul. 17 Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, "Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him." 18 So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to tell you." 19 The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?" 20 He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him. 21 Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."
  • Acts 23:30 : 30 When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell."
  • Judg 16:2-3 : 2 [It was told] the Gazites, saying, "Samson is here!" They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him. 3 Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
  • Ps 37:32-33 : 32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him. 33 Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
  • Acts 9:29-30 : 29 preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him. 30 When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.
  • Acts 14:5-6 : 5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them, 6 they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.
  • Acts 17:10-15 : 10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. 11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. 12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men. 13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes. 14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there. 15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
  • Acts 25:11 : 11 For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"

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  • Acts 9:23
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    23When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,

  • Acts 9:25-26
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    25but his disciples took him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

    26When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

  • Acts 26:21
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    21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

  • Acts 23:15-16
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    15Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."

    16But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

  • Acts 9:1-2
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    1But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

    2and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

  • Acts 25:2-3
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    2Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

    3asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

  • 2 Cor 11:32-33
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    32In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.

    33Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.

  • Matt 26:4
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    4They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

  • Acts 23:20-21
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    20He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.

    21Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

  • Judg 16:2
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    2[It was told] the Gazites, saying, "Samson is here!" They surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.

  • Acts 23:12
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    12When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

  • Acts 4:3
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    3They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

  • 1 Sam 19:10-11
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    10Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.

    11Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed."

  • Judg 9:32
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    32Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:

  • 1 Sam 23:26
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    26Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.

  • Acts 9:28-30
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    28He was with them entering into Jerusalem,

    29preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.

    30When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

  • Ps 56:6
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    6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

  • Acts 22:19-20
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    19I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

    20When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.'

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Luke 11:54
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    54lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

  • Acts 14:5-6
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    5When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

    6they became aware of it, and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

  • 1 Sam 19:1-2
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    1Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.

    2Jonathan told David, saying, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

  • Acts 8:3
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    3But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.

  • 1 Sam 23:7
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    7It was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars."

  • Acts 7:58
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    58They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

  • Acts 22:4
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    4I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

  • Acts 8:1
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    1Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

  • Acts 21:31
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    31As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

  • 1 Sam 24:3
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    3He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave.

  • Acts 9:21
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    21All who heard him were amazed, and said, "Isn't this he who in Jerusalem made havoc of those who called on this name? And he had come here intending to bring them bound before the chief priests!"

  • Acts 23:30
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    30When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell."

  • Acts 9:11
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    11The Lord said to him, "Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

  • Acts 5:33
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    33But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.

  • Acts 16:27
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    27The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

  • Acts 14:19
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    19But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

  • Josh 2:5
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    5It happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went, I don't know. Pursue them quickly; for you will overtake them."

  • Jer 18:22
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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.