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Act 23:12 — And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

certain		Act 23:21,30; Act 25:3; Psa 2:1-3; Psa 64:2-6; Isa 8:9,10; Jer 11:19; Mat 26:4
bound		1Ki 19:2; 2Ki 6:31; Mat 27:25; Mar 6:23-26
under a curse		or, with an oath of execration. Lev 27:29; Jos 6:26; Jos 7:1,15; Neh 10:29; Mat 26:74; *Gr:; 1Cr 16:22; Gal 3:13
that		Such execrable vows as these were not unusual among the Jews, who, from their perverted traditions, challenged to themselves a right of punishing without any legal process, those whom they considered transgressors of the law; and in some cases, as in the case of one who had forsaken the law of Moses, they thought they were justified in killing them. They therefore made no scruple of acquainting the chief priests and elders with their conspiracy against the life of Paul, and applying for their connivance and support; who, being chiefly of the sect of the Sadducees, and the apostle's bitterest enemies, were so far from blaming them for it, that they gladly aided and abetted them in this mode of dispatching him, and on its failure they soon afterwards determined upon making a similar attempt. (Act 25:2, 3.) If these were, in their bad way, conscientious men, they were under no necessity of perishing for hunger, when the providence of God had hindered them from accomplishing their vow; for their vows of abstinenc

Correlating Passages

certain

	Act 23:21	But 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.
	Act 23:30	And 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.
	Act 25:3	And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
	Psa 2:1	Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
	Psa 2:2	The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying],
	Psa 2:3	Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
	Psa 64:2	Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
	Psa 64:3	Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words:
	Psa 64:4	That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
	Psa 64:5	They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
	Psa 64:6	They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one [of them], and the heart, [is] deep.
	Isa 8:9	Associate 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.
	Isa 8:10	Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is] with us.
	Jer 11:19	But 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.
	Mat 26:4	And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill [him].

bound

	1Ki 19:2	Then 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.
	2Ki 6:31	Then 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.
	Mat 27:25	Then answered all the people, and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children.
	Mar 6:23	And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give [it] thee, unto the half of my kingdom.
	Mar 6:24	And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
	Mar 6:25	And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
	Mar 6:26	And the king was exceeding sorry; [yet] for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.

under a curse

	Lev 27:29	None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; [but] shall surely be put to death.
	Jos 6:26	And 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.
	Jos 7:1	But 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.
	Jos 7:15	And 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.
	Neh 10:29	They 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;
	Mat 26:74	Then began he to curse and to swear, [saying], I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
	1Cr 16:22	If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
	Gal 3:13	Christ 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:

that

	Act 25:2	Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,
	Act 25:3	And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.

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