Stocks
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Feet fastened in, as a punishment
Job 13:27; 33:11; Prov 7:22
27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
Job 13:2711 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
Job 33:1122 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Proverbs 7:22 -
In prisons
Jer 20:2; Acts 16:24
2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah 20:224 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Acts 16:24
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.