Stocks

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Feet fastened in, as a punishment

• Job 13:27 You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
• Job 33:11 He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
• Proverbs 7:22 He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,

In prisons

• Jeremiah 20:2 he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
• Acts 16:24 On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.