Rope
7 lines · 8 passages
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Threefold
Eccl 4:12
12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 -
Worn on the head as an emblem of servitude
1 Kgs 20:31, 32
31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
1 Kings 20:3132 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
1 Kings 20:32 -
Used in casting lots
Mic 2:5
5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
Micah 2:5 - Figurative
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Of love
Hos 11:4
4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
Hosea 11:4 -
Of affliction
Job 36:8
8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
Job 36:8 -
Of temptations
Ps 140:5; Prov 5:22
5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
Psalms 140:522 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Proverbs 5:22
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
