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Acts 16:24

Suffering

22 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.

23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.

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BSB
On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened 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.
WEB
Having received such a command, he threw them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.
ASV
who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
DARBY
who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks.
BLB
who, having received such an order, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
ÅB
Da han hadde fått dette bud, kastet han dem i det innerste fangerom og satte deres føtter fast i stokken.
OTB
Etter å ha mottatt slike ordre, satte han dem i den innerste cellen og festet føttene deres i stokkene.
B1930
Da han hadde fått dette bud, kastet han dem i det innerste fangerum og satte deres føtter fast i stokken.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Job 13:27

    Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

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  • Job 33:11

    He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

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  • Jeremiah 29:26

    The 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.

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  • Jeremiah 38:26

    Then 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.

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  • Psalms 105:18

    Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:

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  • Jeremiah 37:15–16

    Wherefore 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.

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  • 1 Kings 22:27

    And 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.

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  • Jeremiah 20:2–3

    Then 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.

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