Acts 9:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night, to 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ But their laying in wait was made known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night, that they might kill him.

Acts 9:24 Cross References

Psalm 21:11

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

Proverbs 24:15

Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do not violence to his home;

Acts 20:19

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which befell me through the plots of the Jews;

Acts 20:3

There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

Acts 23:30

And when it was disclosed to me 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.”

Acts 25:11

If then I am a wrongdoer, and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death; but if there is nothing in their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

Acts 25:3

asking as a favor to have the man sent to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him on the way.

Acts 9:25

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

2 Corinthians 11:32

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