Acts 27:29 KJV — MannaFest

Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

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ASV

And fearing lest haply we should be cast ashore on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for the day.

WEB

Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.

YLT

and fearing lest on rough places we may fall, out of the stern having cast four anchors, they were wishing day to come.

DBT

and fearing lest we should be cast on rocky places, casting four anchors out of the stern, they wished that day were come.

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Acts — The Gospel's sequel. Jerusalem → Judea and Samaria → the ends of the earth. Three missionary journeys and the voyage to Rome.

Author: Luke, companion of Paul — the 'we' passages begin in 16:10
Date: c. AD 62

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Hebrews 6:19
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
Acts 27:17
Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
Acts 27:30
And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
Psalms 130:6
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Deuteronomy 28:67
In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

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The defeating of the sailors' attempt to quit the ship; here was a new danger added to their distress, which they narrowly escaped. The treacherous design of the seamen, and that was to leave the sinking ship, which, though a piece of wisdom in others, yet in those that were entrusted with the care of it was the basest fraud that could be (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

And when the fear was, as here, that they might fall on the rocks to leeward, and the intention was to run the ship ashore as soon as daylight enabled them to fix upon a safe spot, the very best thing they could do was to anchor by the stern [SMITH].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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