'Chains' in the Bible
and two chains of pure gold; you will make them of braided cord work, and attach the cord chains to the settings.
“You are to make braided chains of pure gold cord work for the breastpiece.
They made braided chains of pure gold cord for the breastpiece.
The weight of the gold earrings he requested was about 43 pounds of gold, in addition to the crescent ornaments and ear pendants, the purple garments on the kings of Midian, and the chains on the necks of their camels.
Next, Solomon overlaid the interior of the temple with pure gold, and he hung gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary and overlaid it with gold.
They slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes. Finally, the king of Babylon blinded Zedekiah, bound him in bronze chains, and took him to Babylon.
The larger room he paneled with cypress wood, overlaid with fine gold, and decorated with palm trees and chains.
Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiadesor loosen the belt of Orion?
“Let us tear off their chainsand free ourselves from their restraints.”
Others sat in darkness and gloom—prisoners in cruel chains—
He brought them out of darkness and gloomand broke their chains apart.
binding their kings with chainsand their dignitaries with iron shackles,
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
This is what the Lord says:The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cushand the Sabeans, men of stature,will come over to youand will be yours;they will follow you,they will come over in chainsand bow down to you.They will confess to you:God is indeed with you, and there is no other;there is no other God.
Isn’t the fast I choose:To break the chains of wickedness,to untie the ropes of the yoke,to set the oppressed free,and to tear off every yoke?
Then he blinded Zedekiah and put him in bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, released him at Ramah. When he found him, he was bound in chains with all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.
Now pay attention: Today I am setting you free from the chains that were on your hands. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look—the whole land is in front of you. Wherever it seems good and right for you to go, go there.”
Then he blinded Zedekiah and bound him with bronze chains. The king of Babylon brought Zedekiah to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.
ג GimelHe has walled me in so I cannot escape;He has weighed me down with chains.
Yet she became an exile;she went into captivity.Her children were also dashed to piecesat the head of every street.They cast lots for her dignitaries,and all her nobles were bound in chains.
He lived in the tombs. No one was able to restrain him anymore—even with chains—
because he often had been bound with shackles and chains, but had snapped off the chains and smashed the shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue him.
For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was guarded, bound by chains and shackles, he would snap the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.
On the night before Herod was to bring him out for execution, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the sentries in front of the door guarded the prison.
Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell. Striking Peter on the side, he woke him up and said, “Quick, get up!” Then the chains fell off his wrists.
Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the jail were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains came loose.
except that in town after town the Holy Spirit testifies to me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me.
Then the commander came up, took him into custody, and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He asked who he was and what he had done.
I found out that the accusations were about disputed matters in their law, and that there was no charge that merited death or chains.
“I wish before God,” replied Paul, “that whether easily or with difficulty, not only you but all who listen to me today might become as I am—except for these chains.”
and when they had left they talked with each other and said, “This man is doing nothing that deserves death or chains.”
For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough in Him to speak as I should.
May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.
appeal to you for my son, Onesimus. I fathered him while I was in chains.
For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment;
and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling.