Acts 16:24

New English Translation

Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:27

Say, ‘This is what the king says, “Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water until I safely return.”’”

2 Chronicles 16:10

Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.

Job 13:27

And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.

Job 33:11

He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.’

Psalm 105:18

The shackles hurt his feet; his neck was placed in an iron collar,

Jeremiah 29:26

“The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada. He has put you in charge in the Lord’s temple of controlling any lunatic who pretends to be a prophet. And it is your duty to put any such person in the stocks with an iron collar around his neck.

Jeremiah 38:26

If they do this, tell them, ‘I was pleading with the king not to send me back to die in the dungeon of Jonathan’s house.’”

Jeremiah 38:6

So the officials took Jeremiah and put him in the cistern of Malkijah, one of the royal princes, that was in the courtyard of the guardhouse. There was no water in the cistern, only mud. So when they lowered Jeremiah into the cistern with ropes he sank in the mud.