What Is Stocks in the Bible?
Object
Two wooden beams with holes where a prisoner’s feet were locked so that he could not move.
Where it appears in the Bible
Acts 16:24; Jeremiah 20:2
What the Bible says
Acts 16:24
Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Jeremiah 20:2
And Phassur struck Jeremias the prophet, and put him in the stocks, that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, in the house of the Lord.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Acts 16:24