On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Parallel translations
- WEB who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
- KJV Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
- NKJV Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
- NASB and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
- NLT So the jailer put them into the inner dungeon and clamped their feet in the stocks.
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The jailer locked them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in stocks.
Overview
Maximum security, painful stocks, and the darkest cell are meant to crush these prisoners. The detail heightens the contrast with what follows: men in such misery who respond not with despair but with worship. Their circumstances could not reach the joy that Christ supplies to those who suffer for His sake.
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Cross-references · 10
- Job 33:11He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
- Job 13:27You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
- Jer 29:26‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.
- Jer 38:26then tell them, ‘I was presenting to the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”
- Lam 3:53–55They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
- Jer 37:15–16The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
- 1 Kgs 22:27and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
- Jer 20:2–3he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chr 16:10Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
- Ps 105:18They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
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