VERSE STUDY • KJV

2 Corinthians 11:32

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

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In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.

In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me:

In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me,

29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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