Acts 23:12

When day comes, a band of Jews binds themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they kill Paul. Their oath reveals murderous determination against him.

Cross-references · 25

• Acts 23:30And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.
• Isa 8:9–10Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
• Acts 23:21But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
• Acts 23:14And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
• Ps 2:1–3Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
• Ps 31:13For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
• Jer 11:19But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
• 2 Kgs 6:31Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
• Ps 64:2–6Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
• Acts 25:3And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
• Matt 26:4And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
• Gal 3:13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
• 1 Cor 16:22If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
• 1 Kgs 19:2Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
• 1 Sam 14:24And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.
• Mark 6:23–26And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.
• Josh 6:26And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
• Matt 27:25Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
• Matt 26:74Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
• Neh 10:29They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
• Lev 27:29None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
• 1 Sam 14:40–44Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.
• Josh 7:15And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
• 1 Sam 14:27–28But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
• Josh 7:1But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.

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