Apostlagärningarna 23:21

Svenska Bibel

Gör dem nu icke till viljes häri; ty mer än fyrtio av dem ligga i försåt för honom och hava med dyr ed förpliktat sig att varken äta eller dricka, förrän de hava röjt honom ur vägen. Och nu äro de redo och vänta allenast på att du skall bevilja deras begäran.»

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

do not: Exodus 23:2

for: Acts 23:12-14, Acts 9:23, Acts 9:24, Acts 14:5, Acts 14:6, Acts 20:19, Acts 25:3, 2 Corinthians 11:26, 2 Corinthians 11:32, 2 Corinthians 11:33

an oath: Acts 23:14, Romans 9:3

Reciprocal: Numbers 30:2 - to bind Numbers 35:20 - by laying Deuteronomy 23:23 - hast vowed Joshua 8:4 - lie in wait Nehemiah 4:11 - They shall not Nehemiah 10:29 - entered Psalms 10:9 - He lieth Psalms 59:3 - they Psalms 119:95 - wicked Ephesians 4:14 - lie

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But do not thou yield unto them,.... Or be persuaded by them, to bring Paul down from the castle to the sanhedrim; this must not be imputed to the young man's pride and vanity, in taking upon him to give advice to the chief captain; but to his great affection for his uncle, which moved him to entreat, rather than to direct him, for which he gives a good reason:

for there lie in wait for him more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him; :-.

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and now are they ready; to execute their designs, being met together, and lying in ambush in some place, between the castle and the place where the sanhedrim met:

looking for a promise from thee; that when the sanhedrim should apply to him, he would promise them to bring Paul down according to their request; and for the making and performing of this promise, these men were waiting.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Looking for a promise from thee - Waiting for your consent to bring him down to them.