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Acts 16:24

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Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
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  1. Job 13:27Rank 1 from verse 24
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    27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

  2. Job 33:11Rank 2 from verse 24
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    11He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

  3. Jeremiah 29:26Rank 3 from verse 24
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    26The 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.

  4. Jeremiah 38:26Rank 4 from verse 24
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    26Then 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.

  5. 1 Kings 22:27Rank 5 from verse 24
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    27And 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.

  6. 2 Chronicles 16:10Rank 6 from verse 24
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    10Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.

  7. Jeremiah 20:2–3Rank 7 from verse 24
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    2Then 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.

    3And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.

  8. Jeremiah 37:15–16Rank 8 from verse 24
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    15Wherefore 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.

    16¶ When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

  9. Lamentations 3:53–55Rank 9 from verse 24
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    53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

    54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

    55¶ I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

  10. Psalms 105:18Rank 10 from verse 24
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    18Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:

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Acts 16:24

COMBINED MEANING

received

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Past-tense or past-participial form of receive (to take, accept, admit, welcome, or obtain).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

charge

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Sense 1: To command, enjoin, or solemnly require; a command or injunction. Sense 2: A duty, trust, care, oversight, or a person or thing entrusted. Sense 3: To impute or accuse; an accusation or liability imputed. Sense 4: To impose a burden, payment, or obligation; a cost or expense. Sense 5: To entrust with or make responsible for a person, duty, or burden.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

inner

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Interior; farther inward than something else. Interior; internal; not outward.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

made

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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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fast

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Sense 1: Firm, fixed, or secure. Sense 2: Moving quickly. Sense 3: A period or act of abstaining from food. Sense 4: To abstain from food for a time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

stocks

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A restraining frame or instrument in which the feet or body of a prisoner are fastened.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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16:19¶ And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,

16:20And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,

16:21And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.

16:22And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.

16:23And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

16:24Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

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