18 occurrences in 9 translations

'Shackles' in the Bible

The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he was forced to grind grain in the prison.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGrindingImprisonmentsKnivesMonotonyMutilationPrisonersTortureCaptivesHeartlessnessHard LaborPrisonsBrassGrinding FoodEyes HarmedBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

Your hands were not bound,your feet not placed in bronze shackles.You fell like one who falls victim to criminals.And all the people wept over him even more.

Verse ConceptsWeepingTying UpBronze Shackles

So He brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsNosesPrisonersBronze Shackles

Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked him and bound him in bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsBronze Shackles

He has bound my feet in shackles, and keeps watching everything I do.'"

Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, DivineGod Is UnchangeableGod Seeing All People

"Let us tear off their shackles from us, and cast off their chains."

Verse ConceptsChainsEvil And FreedomBreaking Chains

They hurt his feet with shackles;his neck was put in an iron collar.

Verse ConceptsIronHurthurting

binding their kings with chainsand their dignitaries with iron shackles,

Verse ConceptsIron ObjectsBreaking Chains

So now, do not mock,or your shackles will become stronger.Indeed, I have heard from the Lord God of Hostsa decree of destruction for the whole land.

Verse ConceptsChainsMockeryRejection Of God, Results OfRidicule, Objects OfDestructionTying Upmockers

Jehovah hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that there should be officers in the house of Jehovah, over every madman and self-made prophet, that thou shouldest put him in the stocks and in the shackles.

Verse ConceptsMadmenDeposed PriestsExchange Of IndividualsReckoned Insane

Moreover, he blinded Zedekiah and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

He blinded Zedekiah and bound him in bronze shackles. Then the king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in prison until he died.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisonsLifelongKings ExiledBlindingOther BlindingBronze Shackles

For I will now break off his yoke from youand tear off your shackles.

Verse ConceptsYokesGod Freeing CaptivesBreaking 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.

Verse ConceptsChainsIron ChainsNo Strength To CopeBreaking Chains

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.

Verse ConceptsChainsDemons, Nature OfRestlessnessSatan, Character OfIron ChainsLiving In The WildernessJesus Casting Out DemonsBreaking Chains

suddenly there was a great earthquake, so [powerful] that the very foundations of the prison were shaken and at once all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsearthquakesChainsPrisonsSudden EventsIron ChainsFoundations Of BuildingsGod ShakingGod Freeing CaptivesBreaking Chainsjailevangelising

Bible Theasaurus

Fetter (5 instances)
Hamper (2 instances)
Shackles (18 instances)

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