2Ki 11:15, 18, Jer 20:1-2, Act 4:1, 5:24 | TSK | STEP

the stocks.{Hammahpecheth,} from {haphach,} "to overturn, subvert, distort," generally denotes an overthrow, (De 29:22. Isa 1:7; 10:19,) and seems to signify here a sort of stocks, by which the limbs were distorted into uneasy postures. So the Chaldee, {keephtha} and Jerome, {nervus,} which he explains in his comment as "a kind of wooden fetter, into which the feet were thrust, {vinculi lignei genus, cui pedes inseruntur.} Some learned men understand it as merely signifying a place of confinement, or house of correction; but the word is never used for any of the prisons into which the prophet was afterwards cast; and the punishment seems to have been public and ignominious.

in the high.

37:13; 38:7; Zec 14:10

Acts 4:1

1 The rulers of the Jews, offended with Peter's sermon,

3 imprison him and John.

5 After, upon examination Peter boldly avouching the lame man to be healed by the name of Jesus, and that by the same Jesus only we must be eternally saved,

13 they command him and John to preach no more in that name, adding also threatening;

23 whereupon the church flees to prayer.

31 And God, by moving the place where they were assembled, testifies that he heard their prayer; confirming the church with the gift of the Holy Ghost, and with mutual love and charity.

the priests.

6; 6:7,12; Mt 26:3,4; 27:1,2,20,41; Joh 15:20; 18:3

the captain. or, the ruler.

5:24,26; 2Ch 23:4-9; Lu 22:4

the Sadducees.

23:6-9; Mt 16:12; 22:16,23,24

Acts 5:24

the captain.

26; 4:1; Lu 22:4,52

they.

2:12; 4:16,17,21; Joh 11:47,48; 12:19

this.

Isa 9:7; 53:1,2; Da 2:34,35,44,45; Zec 6:12,13; Mr 4:30-32