Mark 5:4

Holman Christian Standard Bible

because he often had been bound with shackles and chains, but had snapped off the chains and smashed the shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

Cross References

Psalm 105:18

They hurt his feet with shackles; his neck was put in an iron collar.

Mark 5:3

He lived in the tombs. No one was able to restrain him anymore — even with chains —

Mark 5:5

And always, night and day, he was crying out among the tombs and in the mountains and cutting himself with stones.

Luke 8:29

For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was guarded, bound by chains and shackles, he would snap the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.