Acts 16:24
Good News Translation
Upon receiving this order, the jailer threw them into the inner cell and fastened their feet between heavy blocks of wood.

New Revised Standard Version
Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

Contemporary English Version
The jailer did as he was told. He put them deep inside the jail and chained their feet to heavy blocks of wood.

New American Bible
When he received these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and secured their feet to a stake.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.

the inner.

1 Kings 22:27 And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress till I return in peace.

Jeremiah 37:15,16 So Jeremiah went into the house of the prison, and into the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained there many days. . . .

Jeremiah 38:26 Thou shalt say to them: I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not command me to be carried back into the house of Jonathan, to die there.

Lamentations 3:53-55 Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me. . . .

and made.

2 Chronicles 16:10 And Asa was angry with the seer, and commanded him to be put in prison: for he was greatly enraged because of this thing: and he put to death many of the people at that time.

*Heb:

Job 13:27 Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:

Job 33:11 He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths.

Psalm 105:18 They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul,

Jeremiah 20:2 And Phassur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks, that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, in the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 29:26 The Lord hath made thee priest instead of Joiada the priest, that thou shouldst be ruler in the house of the Lord, over every man that raveth and prophesieth, to put him in the stocks, and into prison.

Context
Paul and Silas Imprisoned
23And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the gaoler to keep them diligently. 24Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks. 25And at midnight, Paul and Silas, praying, praised God. And they that were in prison heard them.…
Cross References
Job 13:27
Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:

Job 33:11
He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths.

Jeremiah 20:2
And Phassur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks, that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, in the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 29:26
The Lord hath made thee priest instead of Joiada the priest, that thou shouldst be ruler in the house of the Lord, over every man that raveth and prophesieth, to put him in the stocks, and into prison.

Jeremiah 38:6
Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the son of Amelech, which was in the entry of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah by ropes into the dungeon, wherein there was no water, but mire. And Jeremiah sunk into the mire.

Acts 16:23
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