Nave’s Topical Bible
Rope
7 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Threefold
- Worn on the head as an emblem of servitude
- Used in casting lots
- FIGURATIVE
- Of love
- Of affliction
- Of temptations
Bible verses about “Rope”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Ecclesiastes 4:12And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
- 1 Kings 20:31And 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 20:32So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben–hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
- Micah 2:5Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the Lord.
- Hosea 11:4I 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.
- Job 36:8And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
- Psalms 140:5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
- Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.