Acts 23:12

certain: Acts 23:21, Acts 23:30, Acts 25:3, Psalms 2:1-Leviticus :, Psalms 64:2-Joshua :, Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Jeremiah 11:19, Matthew 26:4

bound: 1 Kings 19:2, 2 Kings 6:31, Matthew 27:25, Mark 6:23-Ezekiel :

under a curse: or, with an oath of execration, Leviticus 27:29, Joshua 6:26, Joshua 7:1, Joshua 7:15, Nehemiah 10:29, Matthew 26:74,*Gr: 1 Corinthians 16:22, Galatians 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 - Acts 25:2, Acts 25:3. 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 abstinence from eating and drinking were as easy to loose as to bind, any of their wise men or Rabbis having power to absolve them, as Dr. Lightfoot has shown from the Talmud. 1 Samuel 14:24, 1 Samuel 14:27, 1 Samuel 14:28, 1 Samuel 14:40-Acts :, Psalms 31:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 28:20 - vowed Genesis 37:18 - conspired Exodus 1:10 - wisely Leviticus 5:4 - to do evil Leviticus 27:28 - no devoted Numbers 30:2 - swear Deuteronomy 23:23 - hast vowed Judges 21:1 - There 1 Kings 20:10 - The gods 2 Kings 6:13 - spy where Nehemiah 4:8 - all Nehemiah 4:11 - They shall not Esther 2:22 - the thing Job 5:12 - their hands Job 24:5 - rising Psalms 11:2 - that Psalms 26:10 - In Psalms 36:4 - deviseth Psalms 56:6 - gather Psalms 83:5 - For Psalms 102:8 - sworn Proverbs 12:6 - words Proverbs 27:10 - better Jeremiah 11:9 - General Jeremiah 20:10 - we shall Jeremiah 44:25 - We will Hosea 5:2 - profound Hosea 6:8 - polluted with blood Micah 2:1 - to Habakkuk 1:4 - for Matthew 10:17 - beware Matthew 27:23 - But Mark 6:24 - The head Acts 6:11 - they Acts 9:24 - their Acts 12:11 - all Acts 14:6 - were Acts 20:3 - the Jews Acts 23:20 - The Jews Acts 26:21 - the Jews Romans 15:31 - I may 2 Corinthians 11:26 - in perils by mine 2 Timothy 3:11 - but 1 John 3:15 - hateth