KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Acts 23:31–32
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Acts 23:31
31Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
31Then the souldiers, as it was commaunded them, tooke Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
Acts 23:32
32On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:
32On the morow, they left the horsemen to goe with him, and returned to the castle.
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DEFINED WORDS
Acts 23:31
Persons engaged or enlisted in military service.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Ordered; directed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Acts 23:32
Departed from, allowed to remain, or abandoned.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Men who ride horses, especially soldiers serving on horseback.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
Came, sent, or gave back; restored or repaid.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A house fortified for defense against an enemy; a fortress.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 31
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Open the full verse study3Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
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Open the full verse study23And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Cæsarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
24And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
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Open the full verse study8For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
From verse 32
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Open the full verse study10And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
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Open the full verse study23And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Cæsarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
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