Acts 9:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.

Acts 9:24 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 11:32
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
Acts 25:3
And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
Acts 20:19
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
Acts 20:3
And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
Psalms 37:32-33
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 23-31)

Luke here makes no mention of Paul’s journey into Arabia, which he tells us himself was immediately after his conversion, Gal. 1:16, 17. As soon as God had revealed his Son in him, that he might preach him, he went not up to Jerusalem, to receive instructions from the apostles (as any other convert would have done, that was designed for the ministry), but he went to Arabia, where there was new gro…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24-25. they watched the gates night and day to kill him--The full extent of his danger appears only from his own account (2Co 11:32): “In Damascus, the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me”; the exasperated Jews having obtained from the governor a military force, the more surely to compass his destruction.