Acts 23:12
certain: Act 23:21, Act 23:30, Act 25:3, Psa 2:1-3, Psa 64:2-6, Isa 8:9, Isa 8:10, Jer 11:19, Mat 26:4 bound: 1Ki 19:2, 2Ki 6:31, Mat 27:25, Mar 6:23-26 under a curse: or, with an oath of execration, Lev 27:29, Jos 6:26, Jos 7:1, Jos 7:15, Neh 10:29, Mat 26:74,*Gr: 1Co 16:22, Gal 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 - Act 25:2, Act 25:3. 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. 1Sa 14:24, 1Sa 14:27, 1Sa 14:28, 1Sa 14:40-44, Psa 31:13 Reciprocal: Gen 28:20 - vowed Gen 37:18 - conspired Exo 1:10 - wisely Lev 5:4 - to do evil Lev 27:28 - no devoted Num 30:2 - swear Deu 23:23 - hast vowed Jdg 21:1 - There 1Ki 20:10 - The gods 2Ki 6:13 - spy where Neh 4:8 - all Neh 4:11 - They shall not Est 2:22 - the thing Job 5:12 - their hands Job 24:5 - rising Psa 11:2 - that Psa 26:10 - In Psa 36:4 - deviseth Psa 56:6 - gather Psa 83:5 - For Psa 102:8 - sworn Pro 12:6 - words Pro 27:10 - better Jer 11:9 - General Jer 20:10 - we shall Jer 44:25 - We will Hos 5:2 - profound Hos 6:8 - polluted with blood Mic 2:1 - to Hab 1:4 - for Mat 10:17 - beware Mat 27:23 - But Mar 6:24 - The head Act 6:11 - they Act 9:24 - their Act 12:11 - all Act 14:6 - were Act 20:3 - the Jews Act 23:20 - The Jews Act 26:21 - the Jews Rom 15:31 - I may 2Co 11:26 - in perils by mine 2Ti 3:11 - but 1Jo 3:15 - hateth