About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. A
Elliot's Commentary states, related to the KJV rendering "For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor":Becometh.—Instead of this translation, it is better to render, in his kingdom he was even poor; but there is ambiguity in the ...