Concordance
Chains (100 Occurrences)Matthew 14:3
For Herod had arrested John, and had put him in chains, and imprisoned him, for the sake of Herodias his brother Philip's wife,
(WEY)
Mark 5:3
He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,
(WEB KJV DBY WBS YLT)
Mark 5:4
because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.
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Mark 6:17
For Herod himself had sent and had had John arrested and had kept him in prison in chains, for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; because he had married her.
(WEY)
Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,
(BBE)
Luke 8:29
For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bands apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.
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Acts 8:23
For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.
(BBE)
Acts 9:2
went to the High Priest and begged from him letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, in order that if he found any believers there, either men or women, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.
(WEY)
Acts 9:21
and his hearers were all amazed, and began to ask one another, "Is not this the man who in Jerusalem tried to exterminate those who called upon that Name, and came here on purpose to carry them off in chains to the High Priests?"
(WEY)
Acts 12:6
The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
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Acts 12:7
And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off from his hands.
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Acts 16:24
And he, having such orders, put them into the inner prison with chains on their feet.
(BBE)
Acts 16:26
when suddenly there was such a violent shock of earthquake that the prison shook to its foundations. Instantly the doors all flew open, and the chains fell off from every prisoner.
(WEY BBE NAS NIV)
Acts 21:13
His reply was, "What can you mean by thus breaking my heart with your grief? Why, as for me, I am ready not only to go to Jerusalem and be put in chains, but even to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."
(WEY)
Acts 21:33
Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.
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Acts 22:5
as the High Priest also and all the Elders can bear me witness. It was, too, from them that I received letters to the brethren in Damascus, and I was already on my way to Damascus, intending to bring those also who had fled there, in chains to Jerusalem, to be punished.
(WEY)
Acts 22:29
Then those who were about to put him to the test went away: and the chief captain was in fear, seeing that he was a Roman, and that he had put chains on him.
(BBE NAS NIV)
Acts 22:30
The next day, wishing to know exactly what charge was being brought against him by the Jews, the Tribune ordered his chains to be removed; and, having sent word to the High Priests and all the Sanhedrin to assemble, he brought Paul down and made him stand before them.
(WEY)
Acts 24:27
But after two years Porcius Festus took the place of Felix, who, desiring to have the approval of the Jews, kept Paul in chains.
(BBE)
Acts 26:29
"My prayer to God, whether briefly or at length," replied Paul, "would be that not only you but all who are my hearers to-day, might become such as I am--except these chains."
(WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)
Acts 28:20
But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.
(BBE)
Ephesians 6:20
for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
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Philippians 1:7
So it is right for me to take thought for you all in this way, because I have you in my heart; for in my chains, and in my arguments before the judges in support of the good news, making clear that it is true, you all have your part with me in grace.
(BBE NIV)
Philippians 1:13
so that it became evident to the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;
(See NIV)
Philippians 1:14
And most of the brothers in the Lord, taking heart because of my chains, are all the stronger to give the word of God without fear.
(BBE NIV)
Philippians 1:16
The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
(WEB)
Philippians 1:17
but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.
(See NIV)
Colossians 4:3
And making prayer for us, that God may give us an open door for the preaching of the word, the secret of Christ, for which I am now in chains;
(BBE NIV)
Colossians 4:18
The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
(See NIV)
2 Timothy 1:16
May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus because he frequently gave me help, and had no feeling of shame because I was in chains;
(BBE NAS RSV NIV)
2 Timothy 2:9
in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained.
(WEB WEY BBE)
Philemon 1:10
I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,
(WEB WEY BBE NIV)
Philemon 1:13
whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.
(WEB BBE NIV)
Hebrews 2:15
And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free.
(BBE)
Hebrews 10:34
For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
(WEB)
Hebrews 11:36
Others again were tested by cruel mockery and by scourging; yes, and by chains and imprisonment.
(WEY BBE NAS RSV)
Hebrews 13:3
Keep in mind those who are in chains, as if you were chained with them, and those who are in trouble, as being yourselves in the body.
(BBE)
2 Peter 2:4
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
(KJV BBE DBY WBS YLT)
Jude 1:6
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
(KJV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)
Revelation 20:2
And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years,
(BBE)
Genesis 39:20
And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house.
(BBE)
Genesis 42:24
And turning away from them, he was overcome with weeping; then he went on talking to them again and took Simeon and put chains on him before their eyes.
(BBE)
Exodus 28:14
and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.
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Exodus 28:22
You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
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Exodus 28:24
You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
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Exodus 28:25
The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS NIV)
Exodus 39:15
They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
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Exodus 39:17
They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
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Exodus 39:18
The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its front.
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Numbers 31:50
We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
(KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS)
Judges 8:26
The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.
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Judges 16:21
The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
(See NAS)
1 Samuel 15:32
Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him cheerfully. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
(See JPS)
1 Kings 6:21
So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
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1 Kings 7:17
He also made nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars: seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.
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2 Kings 23:33
And Pharaoh-necoh put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not be king in Jerusalem; and took from the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
(BBE NIV)
2 Kings 25:7
and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
(DBY)
2 Chronicles 3:5
The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
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2 Chronicles 3:16
He made chains in the oracle, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
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2 Chronicles 33:11
Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
(WEB ASV BBE DBY NAS)
2 Chronicles 36:6
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and took him away in chains to Babylon.
(BBE DBY NAS)
Ezra 9:8
And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.
(BBE)
Job 12:18
He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;
(BBE)
Job 13:27
And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
(BBE)
Job 33:11
He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.
(BBE)
Job 36:8
And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,
(BBE NIV)
Job 38:31
Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion?
(See JPS NAS RSV)
Job 41:5
Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?
(BBE)
Psalms 2:3
Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.
(BBE NIV)
Psalms 66:11
You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs.
(BBE)
Psalms 68:6
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
(KJV BBE WBS)
Psalms 105:18
His feet they hurt with fetters: He was laid in 'chains of' iron,
(ASV BBE)
Psalms 105:20
The king sent men to take off his chains; even the ruler of the people, who let him go free.
(BBE)
Psalms 107:10
Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
(BBE NAS NIV)
Psalms 107:14
He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.
(BBE NIV)
Psalms 116:16
Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.
(WEB NIV)
Psalms 149:8
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
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Proverbs 1:9
for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.
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Ecclesiastes 7:26
I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
(WEB NAS NIV)
Song of Songs 1:10
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
(KJV BBE DBY WBS YLT)
Song of Songs 1:11
We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.
(BBE)
Isaiah 3:19
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
(KJV BBE WBS)
Isaiah 3:20
the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms,
(WEB ASV BBE DBY NAS NIV)
Isaiah 28:22
And now, take care that you do not make sport of him, or your bands will be made strong; for I have had word from the Lord, the Lord of armies, of an end, of a complete end, which is to come on all the land.
(See NIV)
Isaiah 40:19
A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
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Isaiah 45:14
Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains; and they will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you:'Surely God is in you; and there is none else. There is no other god.
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Isaiah 49:9
Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.
(BBE)
Isaiah 52:2
Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.
(See NAS NIV)
Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?
(See NIV)
Jeremiah 29:26
The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, to be an overseer in the house of the Lord for every man who is off his head and is acting as a prophet, to put such men in prison and in chains.
(BBE)
Jeremiah 39:7
Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
(KJV BBE DBY WBS)
Jeremiah 40:1
The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.
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Jeremiah 40:4
Now, behold, I release you this day from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don't: behold, all the land is before you; where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.
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Jeremiah 52:11
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
(KJV DBY WBS)
Lamentations 3:7
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot go forth; He hath made my chain heavy.
(See RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 7:23
Make the chain; for the land Hath been full of bloody judgments, And the city hath been full of violence.
(See NIV)
Ezekiel 19:4
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
(KJV WBS YLT)
Ezekiel 19:9
And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
(KJV WBS YLT)
Nahum 1:13
And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.
(BBE)
Nahum 3:10
Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)
Subtopics
Chains
Chains used to Confine Prisoners
Chains: A Partition of, in the Temple
Chains: As Ornaments on Camels
Chains: Figurative
Chains: Worn by Princes
Chains: Worn on Ankles
Chains: Worn on the Breastplate of High Priest
Related Terms
Leg-chains (1 Occurrence)
Foot-chains (1 Occurrence)
Arm-chains (1 Occurrence)
Ankle-chains (1 Occurrence)
Chain (21 Occurrences)
Wreathen (8 Occurrences)
Wreathed (9 Occurrences)
Braided (10 Occurrences)
Ends (108 Occurrences)
Fetters (21 Occurrences)
Prisoned (7 Occurrences)
Chained (9 Occurrences)
Frequently (28 Occurrences)
Ornaments (50 Occurrences)
Thick (129 Occurrences)
Ouches (8 Occurrences)
Laced (3 Occurrences)
Filigree (9 Occurrences)
Rope (10 Occurrences)
Plaited (12 Occurrences)
Breastpiece (21 Occurrences)
Breast-plate (22 Occurrences)
Cordage (3 Occurrences)
Cords (80 Occurrences)
Ankle (2 Occurrences)
Settings (19 Occurrences)
Shackles (14 Occurrences)
Asunder (37 Occurrences)
Ornament (23 Occurrences)
Twisted (79 Occurrences)
Frames (47 Occurrences)
Breastplate (45 Occurrences)
Nobody (21 Occurrences)
Often (74 Occurrences)
Fasten (28 Occurrences)
Ear-rings (12 Occurrences)
Attach (12 Occurrences)
Broke (153 Occurrences)
Apart (228 Occurrences)
Pieces (209 Occurrences)
Attached (31 Occurrences)
Bands (130 Occurrences)
Bound (175 Occurrences)
Instantly (39 Occurrences)
Broken (559 Occurrences)
Rings (46 Occurrences)
Oracle (57 Occurrences)
Quiet (167 Occurrences)
Bag (52 Occurrences)
None (573 Occurrences)
Necklace (9 Occurrences)
Overlayeth (19 Occurrences)
Link (2 Occurrences)
Gloomy (10 Occurrences)
Girdles (13 Occurrences)
Gloom (29 Occurrences)
Grip (32 Occurrences)
Wrists (5 Occurrences)
Wrenched (3 Occurrences)
Irons (5 Occurrences)
Imprisonment (15 Occurrences)
Imprisoned (19 Occurrences)
Impelled (7 Occurrences)
Ephod (45 Occurrences)
Forepart (6 Occurrences)
Fragments (17 Occurrences)
Tribune (18 Occurrences)
Torn (100 Occurrences)
Thread (32 Occurrences)
Tore (59 Occurrences)
Tame (3 Occurrences)
Rent (76 Occurrences)
Embroidered (26 Occurrences)
Edges (28 Occurrences)
Enclosures (10 Occurrences)
Driving (144 Occurrences)
Parting (27 Occurrences)
Pulled (84 Occurrences)
Plucked (46 Occurrences)
