“Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.”
They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the young men laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul - the 'stoning' (lithobolein) fulfills the penalty for blasphemy (Leviticus 24:16), though the execution is extrajudicial and violent. The detail 'laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul' introduces Saul of Tarsus, who will become Paul. His role as holder of the executioners' garments implicates him in the murder; he is 'consenting to his death' (Acts 8:1).
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