For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
Acts 9:24 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) but their plot became known to Sha'ul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him: Common English Bible 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 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 But their laying in wait was made known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night, that they might kill him. |
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:
serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
When I was told that the Judeans lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.*
For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!*
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Yerushalayim; plotting to kill him on the way.
but his talmidim took him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.