Acts 9:24 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

For they intended evil against thee: They imagined a device, which they are not able to perform.

Proverbs 24:15

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Spoil not his resting place:

Acts 20:19

serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews:

Acts 20:3

And when he had spent three months there, and a plot was laid 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 shewn to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to thee forthwith, charging his accusers also to speak against him before thee.

Acts 25:11

If then I am a wrong-doer, and have committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if none of those things is true, whereof these accuse me, no man can give me up unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.

Acts 25:3

asking favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying wait to kill him on the way.

Acts 9:25

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

2 Corinthians 11:32

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, in order to take me: