Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison 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.
- BSB On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell 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 puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’
- Job 13:27You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
- Jer 29:26“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
- Jer 38:26then you shall tell 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 have cast a stone on me.
- Jer 37:15–16The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
- 1 Kgs 22:27Say, ‘Thus says 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 Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.
- 2 Chr 16:10Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
- Ps 105:18They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
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