Psalms 149:8
to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron,
BSB
ASV
To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron;
KJV
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
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To bind their kings in fetters. Do you wish the peoples to be set free? bind the teachers. To bind the kings. He did not call them teachers, but kings: for they reign by the miseries of those people. To bind their kings in fetters. He put it well, in fetters: lest the teachers should run about too much, lest they deceive many, but let them be bound and stand still. And their nobles in iron chains. Their nobles. You may see them saying among the heretics: This man is learned, that one works signs, this one casts out demons.
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron. Thus are the greatest enemies of Jehovah and his people reduced to shame, rendered helpless, and themselves punished. This was Israel's boast in actual fact, it is ours spiritually. The chief powers of evil shall be restrained and ultimately destroyed. Those who made captives of the godly shall themselves be made captive.
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Joshua 12:7And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir…
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from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to…
So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then…
The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation…
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Job 36:8And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
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Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
