Acts 23:12-15

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12 G1161 And G1096 [G5637] when it was G2250 day, G5100 certain G2453 of the Judeans G4160 G4963 [G5660] banded together, G332 0 and bound G1438 themselves G332 [G5656] under a curse, G3004 [G5723] saying G5315 0 that they would G3383 neither G5315 [G5629] eat G3383 nor G4095 [G5629] drink G2193 G3739 till G615 [G5725] they had killed G3972 Paul.

13 G1161 And G2258 [G5713] they were G4119 more than G5062 forty G3588 who G4160 [G5761] had made G5026 this G4945 conspiracy.

14 G3748 And they G4334 [G5631] came to G749 the chief priests G2532 and G4245 elders, G2036 [G5627] and said, G332 [G5656] We have bound G1438 ourselves G331 under a great curse, G1089 [G5664] that we will eat G3367 nothing G2193 G3739 until G615 [G5725] we have slain G3972 Paul.

15 G3568 Now G3767 therefore G5210 ye G4862 with G4892 the council G1718 [G5657] signify G5506 to the chief captain G3704 that G2609 0 he bring G846 him G2609 [G5632] down G4314 to G5209 you G839 to morrow, G5613 as G3195 [G5723] though ye would G1231 [G5721] enquire G197 something more perfectly G4012 concerning G846 him: G1161 and G2249 we, G4253 before G846 he G1448 [G5658] shall come near, G2070 [G5748] are G2092 ready G337 [G5629] to kill G846 him.

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certain.
Acts 23:21; Acts 23:30; Acts 25:3; Psalms 2:1-3; Psalms 64:2-6; 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 6:23-26
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
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. (ch. 25:2, 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 14:40-44; Psalms 31:13