Bible Verses About Cords
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for cords, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 320 votes, led by Ecclesiastes 4:12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Cords
Ecclesiastes 4:1218 votes
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
John 2:1516 votes
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;
Psalms 129:414 votes
The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Hosea 11:414 votes
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.
Psalms 2:313 votes
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Psalms 140:513 votes
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.
Proverbs 5:2213 votes
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Isaiah 5:1813 votes
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
Exodus 35:1811 votes
The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,
Exodus 39:4011 votes
The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,
Judges 15:1311 votes
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 36:811 votes
And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
Isaiah 54:211 votes
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
Jeremiah 10:2011 votes
My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
Numbers 3:2610 votes
And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
Numbers 3:3710 votes
And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
Numbers 4:2610 votes
And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve.
Numbers 4:3210 votes
And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.
Judges 15:1410 votes
And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
Esther 1:610 votes
Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
Isaiah 33:2010 votes
Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
Jeremiah 38:610 votes
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
Jeremiah 38:1110 votes
So Ebed–melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 38:1210 votes
And Ebed–melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
Jeremiah 38:1310 votes
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
What does the Bible say about cords?
Readers most often cite Ecclesiastes 4:12 on the subject of cords. Across 320 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including John 2:15, Psalms 129:4, Hosea 11:4. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.