Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast 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.
- BSB On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet 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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- Job 33:11He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
- Job 13:27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
- Jer 29:26The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.
- Jer 38:26Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.
- Lam 3:53–55They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
- Jer 37:15–16Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
- 1 Kgs 22:27And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
- Jer 20:2–3Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
- 2 Chr 16:10Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
- Ps 105:18Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
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