Postulasagan 13:51

Heilögum Biblíunni

51 En þeir hristu dustið af fótum sér móti þeim og fóru til Íkóníum.

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they: Acts 18:6, Matthew 10:14, Mark 6:11, Luke 9:5

Iconium: Acts 14:1, Acts 14:19, Acts 14:21, Acts 16:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:26 - I pray you Nehemiah 5:13 - I shook my lap Matthew 10:23 - when Luke 10:10 - go Acts 15:36 - in every Acts 20:19 - by the Romans 15:19 - so that 2 Timothy 3:11 - at Antioch

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them,.... As Christ directed his apostles to do; :-.

And came unto Iconium, a city in Lycaonia; here it is placed both by Ptolomy c and Strabo d; Pliny says e, that

"there was a tetrarchy granted out of Lycaonia, on that part which borders on Galatia, consisting of fourteen cities, the most celebrated city being Iconium.''

It was called by the Syrians היק ענא, "Ik-ona", which signifies "the bosom of sheep"; the country round about it being famous for feeding great numbers of sheep; and here afterwards was a church of Christ, a bosom for his sheep; it is now in the hands of the Turks, and is called "Conia", or "Cogne".

c Geograph. l. 5. c. 6. d Ib. l. 12. e Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 27.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But they shook off the dust ... - See the notes on Matthew 10:14.

And came unto Iconium - This was the capital of Lycaonia. It is now called Konieh, and is the capital of Caramania. “Konieh extends to the east and south over the plain far beyond the walls, which are about two miles in circumference ... Mountains covered with snow rise on every side, excepting toward the east, where a plain, as flat as the desert of Arabia, extends far beyond the reach of the eye” (Capt. Kinnear). “Little, if anything, remains of Greek or Roman Iconium, if we except the ancient inscriptions and the fragments of sculptures which are built into the Turkish walls.” “The city wall is said to have been erected by the Seljukian sultans: it seems to have been built from the ruins of more ancient buildings, as broken columns, capitals, pedestals, bas-reliefs, and other pieces of sculpture contribute toward its construction. It has 80 gates, of a square form, each known by a separate name, and, as well as most of the towers, embellished with Arabic inscriptions ... I observed a few Greek characters on the walls, but they were in so elevated a situation that I could not decipher them” (Capt. Kinneir). See Colonel Leake’s description; and also the work of Col. Chesney (1850) on the Euphrates Expedition, vol. i, p. 348, 349.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 13:51. They shook off the dust of their feet against them — This was a very significant rite; by it, they in effect said: Ye are worse than the heathen: even your very land is accursed for your opposition to God, and we dare not permit even its dust to cleave to the soles of our feet; and we shake it off, in departing from your country, according to our Lord's command, (Matthew 10:14,) for a testimony against you, that we offered you salvation, but ye rejected it and persecuted us. The Jews, when travelling in heathen countries, took care, when they came to the borders of their own, to shake off the dust of their feet, lest any of the unhallowed ground should defile the sacred land of Israel.

Came unto Iconium. — According to Strabo, Iconium was a small fortified town, the capital of Lycaonia, at present called Cogni. "Lycaonia was a province at the back of Pamphylia, higher up in Asia Minor, and to the northeast of Pamphylia." Pearce.