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Acts 1:20 KJV
Acts · chapter 1 · verse 20
For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.Acts 1:20 · King James Version
Acts 1:20 in context
18Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
19And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
20For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
21Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
22Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
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Key words (Strong's)
- habitationepaulisa farm, a dwellingG1886 →
- bishoprickepiskopēinvestigation, inspection, visitation, that act by which God looks into and searches out…G1984 →
- desolateerēmossolitary, lonely, desolate, uninhabited, used of places, a desert, wilderness, deserted…G2048 →
- writtengraphōto write, with reference to the form of the letters, to delineate letters on a tablet…G1125 →
- thereinenin, by, with etcG1722 →
- thereinautoshimself, herself, themselves, itself, he, she, it, the sameG846 →
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The sin of Judas was not only his shame and ruin, but it made a vacancy in the college of the apostles. They were ordained twelve, with an eye to the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve patriarchs;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-26