29 Bible Verses about Ropes
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His advisers said to him, "Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind. Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and surrender to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives."
the hangings of the courtyard, its posts and its bases, and the curtain for the gateway of the courtyard, its ropes and its tent pegs, and all the furnishings for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;
Make your tent larger, stretch your tent curtains farther out! Spare no effort, lengthen your ropes, and pound your stakes deep.
After the crew had hoisted it aboard, they used supports to undergird the ship. Fearing they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor, thus letting themselves be driven along.
If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!"
Do not give her archers time to string their bows or to put on their coats of armor. Do not spare any of her young men. Completely destroy her whole army.
Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window. (Her house was built as part of the city wall; she lived in the wall.)
So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped.
So the officials took Jeremiah and put him in the cistern of Malkijah, one of the royal princes, that was in the courtyard of the guardhouse. There was no water in the cistern, only mud. So when they lowered Jeremiah into the cistern with ropes he sank in the mud.
But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall by lowering him in a basket.
but I was let down in a rope-basket through a window in the city wall, and escaped his hands.
"Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?
Do not be like an unintelligent horse or mule, which will not obey you unless they are controlled by a bridle and bit.
telling them, "Go to the village ahead of you. Right away you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.
telling them, "Go to the village ahead of you. When you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.
They said to him, "We promise! We will only take you prisoner and hand you over to them. We promise not to kill you." They tied him up with two brand new ropes and led him up from the cliff. When he arrived in Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they approached him. But the Lord's spirit empowered him. The ropes around his arms were like flax dissolving in fire, and they melted away from his hands.
For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,
For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because Herod had married her.
Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.
The ropes of the wicked tighten around me, but I do not forget your law.
So those men were tied up while still wearing their cloaks, trousers, turbans, and other clothes, and were thrown into the furnace of blazing fire.
Early in the morning, after forming a plan, the chief priests with the elders and the experts in the law and the whole Sanhedrin tied Jesus up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.
Then the squad of soldiers with their commanding officer and the officers of the Jewish leaders arrested Jesus and tied him up.
The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.
I led them with leather cords, with leather ropes; I lifted the yoke from their neck, and gently fed them.
Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols on your forehead.
Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother. Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.
