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2 Corinthians 11:33

Protection and safety

31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.
KJV
And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
WEB
I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
ASV
and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
DARBY
and through a window in a basket I was let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
BLB
But I was let down in a basket through a window through the wall, and I escaped his hands.
ÅB
og gjennom en glugge på muren ble jeg firt ned i en kurv og slapp bort av hans hender.
OTB
og jeg ble firt ned i en kurv gjennom et vindu i muren, og slik unnslapp jeg hans hender.
B1930
og gjennem en glugge på muren blev jeg firt ned i en kurv og slapp bort av hans hender.

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Cross references

  • Acts 9:25

    Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.

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  • Joshua 2:18

    Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.

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  • 1 Samuel 19:12

    So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

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