Acts 16:24

who having received such a charge, put them into the inner prison, and fastened their feet in the stocks.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23having also laid on them many blows, they cast them into prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely,

25And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them,

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 16:10And Asa is angry at the seer, and puts him [in] the house of stocks, for [he is] in a rage with him for this; and Asa oppresses [some] of the people at that time.

Job 33:11He puts my feet in the stocks, || He watches all my paths.

Jeremiah 20:2and Pashhur strikes Jeremiah the prophet, and puts him in the stocks that [are] by the Upper Gate of Benjamin, that [is] by the house of YHWH.

Jeremiah 37:15and the heads are angry against Jeremiah, and have struck him, and put him in the prison-house—the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made it for a prison-house.

Lamentations 3:53They have cut off my life in a pit, || And they cast a stone against me.

Matthew Henry on Acts 16:17-25

The Expulsion of an Evil Spirit; Persecution of Philippi. 16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: 17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation. 18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he… Read the whole commentary →

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