Acts 12:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. ”

Acts 12:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And immediately the angel of the Lord - Diseases and death axe in the Scriptures often attributed to an angel. See 2 Samuel 24:16 ; 1 Chronicles 21:12 , 1Ch 21:15 , 1 Chronicles 21:20 , 1...
Acts 12:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(11) And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he (e) gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. (11) God resists the proud. (e) Josephus records that...
Acts 12:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Fate of the Soldiers and of Herod. For the soldiers, cf. Acts 5:21 ff. Here they are led away to be put to death. The story of Herod's glorification and end is told by Josephus in a similar way...
Acts 12:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

immediately . Greek. parachrema. See note on Acts 3:7 . because . the reason for (Greek. anti. App-104.) which. eaten of worms . Greek. skolekobrotos. Only here. skolex, . worm, only in...
Acts 12:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

23. Forthwith he smote him. As, before, the angel was a minister of God’s grace in the delivery of Peter, so now he taketh vengeance upon Herod. And God doth sometimes use the ministry of an...
Acts 12:23 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1774 THE EVIL OF PRIDE Acts 12:21-23 . And upon a set day Herod, arrayed, in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying, It...
Acts 12:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. The angel of the Lord smote him - His death was most evidently a...
Acts 12:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And upon a set day Herod, &c.— Upon occasion of the games and approaching festival hinted at in the last verse, there was a great resort of the governors and principal men of the neighbouring p...
Acts 12:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. And immediately the (or 'an') angel of the Lord smote him...
Acts 12:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Imprisonment of Peter. Death of Herod 1-19. Persecution of the Church at Jerusalem by Herod. Martyrdom of James the son of Zebedee. Peter's imprisonment and miraculous release. The Church was pers...
Acts 12:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The angel of the Lord smote him. — The intervention of the angel is obviously regarded by St. Luke as the only adequate explanation at once of the death of the persecutor and of the escape of his v...
Acts 12:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Acts 12:23-24 Chapter 8 THE DEFEAT OF PRIDE. Acts 12:1-3 ; Acts 12:23-24 THE chapter at which we have now arrived is very important from a chronological point of view, as it brings the sa...
Acts 12:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

beyond Their Faith Acts 12:13-25 Mark's mother was evidently a woman of property, as her house was large enough to receive the many who felt that prayer was the key to open Peter's prison. Rhod...
Acts 12:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Again persecution broke out in Jerusalem, and the first of the apostolic band suffered martyrdom at the hands of Herod. A revealing sentence concerning Herod is that which declares that when "he saw...
Acts 12:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. (22) And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. (23) And...
Acts 12:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him ,.... With a disease after mentioned; this angel, according to Josephus, appeared in the form of an owl; for he says, that a little after (the shout o...
Acts 12:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. Ver. 23. Because he gave not glory ] Joseph is trusted with a...
Acts 12:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And upon a set day When shows and games were exhibited by him in honour of Claudius Cesar; Herod, arrayed in royal apparel In a garment so wrought with silver, that the rays of the rising sun, st...
Acts 12:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

For a brief time again our eyes are turned toward Jerusalem and Peter, though Peter's work is no longer taking the prominent place it did at the beginning. Being the apostle to the Jews, he manifestl...
Acts 12:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Death of Herod. 20 And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, havi...
Acts 12:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

An angel had delivered Peter, and here an angel destroys Herod: all that heavenly host fullfil God's will for the deliverance of his church, and the destruction of his enemies. He gave not God the g...
Acts 12:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jerusalem Finally Rejects the Apostles, Kingship Ceases in Israel, And The Word Of God Goes On Multiplying (12:1-24). The new centre for world evangelisation having been set up (unknowingly at the...
Acts 12:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 12:20 . For And Herod read And , or but, he—i.e. , Herod. Highly displeased .—θυμομαχῶν, in a hostile state of mind , in modern phrase, “contemplating hostilities” (Pl...
Acts 12:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 12:1 . About that time, when the word of the Lord prevailed so remarkably in Antioch and the northern provinces, and when Paul and Barnabas had brought alms to Jerusalem, as in Acts 12:25 ,...
Acts 12:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark. John Mark 1. Two names are here, one Jewish, the other Roman; the latter adopted a...
Acts 12:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Acts 12:1 Put for stretched, A.V.; afflict for vex, A.V. The phrase, About that time, as in Acts 19:23 , points to what had just before been related (Meyer). The inter...
Acts 12:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The judgment of God upon Herod:
Acts 12:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 21:14-18 ; 1 Samuel 25:38 ; 2 Chronicles 21:18 ; 2 Chronicles 21:19 ; 2 Chronicles 32:21 ; 2 Samuel 24:17 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:4 ; Acts 10:25 ; Acts 10:26 ; Acts 14:14 ; Acts 1...
Acts 12:23 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Herod's Duplicity and Death Acts 12:18-25 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now to our final message concerning Peter's third imprisonment. We are about to present the other side of the message. We h...
Acts 12:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And immediately — God does not delay to vindicate his injured honour; an angel of the Lord smote him — Of this other historians say nothing: so wide a difference there is between Divine and human h...

Acts 12:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Acts 12:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Acts 12:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 12:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 12:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 12:23 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Acts 12:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Acts 12:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Acts 12:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Acts 12:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 12:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Acts 12:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Acts 12:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Acts 12:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Acts 12:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Acts 12:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Acts 12:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Acts 12:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 12:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 12:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acts 12:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Acts 12:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 12:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Acts 12:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 12:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Acts 12:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Acts 12:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Acts 12:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 12:23 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Acts 12:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes