Acts 23:14
After they approached the Rashei HaKohanim (Chief Priests) and the Zekenim (Elders), they said, We have bound ourselves with a shevu'ah (oath) to eat nothing until we have killed Rav Sha'ul.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
13Now there were more than arba'im anashim (forty men) who joined in this kesher.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:9The show of their countenance doth testify against them; 1 and they make known their chet like S'dom; 1 they conceal it not. 1 Oy to their nefesh! For they do ra'ah unto themselves. 1
Jeremiah 8:12Were they ashamed 1 when they did to'evah (abomination)? 1 No, they were not at all ashamed, 1 neither could they know to blush; 1 therefore shall they fall among them that fall; 1 in the time of their pekuddah (visitation [for punishment], time of reckoning) 1 they shall be brought down, saith Hashem. 1
Micah 7:3That they may do evil with both hands skillfully, 1 the sar and the shofet asketh for a bribe; 1 and hagadol uttereth the evil of his nefesh (soul); 1 so they weave it. 1
Matthew Henry on Acts 23:13-35
A Conspiracy against Paul; Paul Sent to Felix. 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. 13 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy. 14 And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul. 15 Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring… Read the whole commentary →