Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.


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Luke 8 29 For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.
Judges 16 11 And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
2 Samuel 3 34 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.
Job 20 19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Isaiah 53 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Judges 19 25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
Revelation 20 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
2 Chronicles 36 6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
Isaiah 9 4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
Matthew 28 4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
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.
Psalms 106 33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Job 12 18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
Proverbs 21 25 The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
Acts 15 10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Psalms 109 16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
Psalms 107 40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
Psalms 149 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
Luke 8 32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
2 Samuel 1 10 So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.
Philippians 2 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Job 30 11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Deuteronomy 2 30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
Jeremiah 25 38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
James 3 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
Luke 20 11 And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
Joshua 9 23 Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
Judges 16 21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
Mark 9 18 And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
Nehemiah 5 18 Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
Psalms 78 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
John 2 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
Job 41 25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
Lamentations 3 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Mark 5 3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
Luke 17 2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Genesis 30 42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
Isaiah 48 4 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
1 Samuel 28 23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
Matthew 22 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Job 34 27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
Psalms 74 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Hebrews 12 20 For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
Proverbs 22 25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Acts 21 33 Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
Jeremiah 39 7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
Judges 15 13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
Job 12 14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Genesis 38 10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
Deuteronomy 32 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;