Acts 9:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night so that they might kill him,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ but their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ But [the knowledge of] their plot was made known to Saul. They were guarding the [city's] gates day and night to kill him,

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him:

Common English Bible

²⁴ However, he found out about their scheme. They were keeping watch at the city gates around the clock so they could assassinate him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ But their treachery became known to Saul. Now they were also watching the gates, day and night, so that they might put him to death.

Acts 9:24 Cross References

2 Corinthians 11:32

In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus in order to seize me,

Acts 25:3

and requested, as a favor to them against Paul, to have him transferred to Jerusalem. They were, in fact, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.

Acts 20:19

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, enduring the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews.

Acts 20:3

where he stayed for three months. He was about to set sail for Syria when a plot was made against him by the Jews, so he decided to return through Macedonia.

Acts 25:11

Now if I am in the wrong and have committed something for which I deserve to die, I am not trying to escape death, but if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can turn me over to them. I appeal to the emperor.”

Acts 23:30

When I was informed that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, ordering his accusers also to state before you what they have against him.”

Psalm 21:11

If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

Acts 9:25

but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.

Proverbs 24:15

Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do no violence to the place where the righteous live;