Acts 12:7

An angel of the Lord appeared, light filled the cell, and Peter's chains fell off as he was told to rise quickly. God breaks every chain to free His servant.

Cross-references · 32

• Acts 5:19But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,
• Acts 16:26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.
• Ps 146:7who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
• Ps 105:18–20They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
• Ps 142:6–7Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.
• Gen 19:15–16When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”
• Acts 27:23–24For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,
• Ps 34:7Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
• Ps 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.
• Acts 10:30Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
• Luke 2:9Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
• Luke 24:4While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.
• Dan 6:22My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no hurt.
• Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
• Eph 5:14Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• Mic 7:9I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.
• Dan 3:24–25Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste: he spoke and said to his counselors, Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire? They answered the king, True, O king.
• Acts 12:23Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• 1 Kgs 19:7Yahweh’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”
• 1 Kgs 19:5He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!”
• Ps 116:16Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant. You have freed me from my chains.
• Acts 9:3As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.
• Isa 60:1“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
• Ps 37:32–33The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
• Ezek 43:2Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory.
• Hab 3:4His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
• 2 Sam 22:29For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.
• Rev 18:1After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.
• Acts 12:6The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
• Hab 3:11The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
• Isa 37:30This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
• Heb 1:14Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

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